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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 09:11:31 07/14/04

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On July 14, 2004 at 12:06:35, José Carlos wrote:

>On July 14, 2004 at 11:41:04, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>On July 14, 2004 at 11:38:31, Peter Berger wrote:
>>
>>>On July 14, 2004 at 11:26:47, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 14, 2004 at 11:12:14, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Not at all, Omid
>>>>>If you already have a parallel engine you should run it into a hardware capable
>>>>>of getting all its power.
>>>>
>>>>I understand that you are going to provide the hardware, right?
>>>>
>>>>It is not something personal; next year I will have the needed hardware, but
>>>>what about others? Deep Sjeng and ParSOS were also parallel engines, but ran on
>>>>single processor not because they thought it was better, but because they did
>>>>not have access to a fast multiprocessor machine.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I wonder what except the results changed from two weeks ago to now to make you
>>>imply this is an unfair event and go on raving about it ?!
>>>
>>>Weren't you even one of the organizers?
>>
>>Yes, and I complained loudly about it even before the event.
>
>  It doesn't make sense to organize something you complain about. Either ask
>_before_ that it is a WMCCC this year or don't organize something you're
>against.

I'm glad that we organized it, and am very happy that it took place
successfully.

I'm of course not against it, but simply say that there is room for improvement.


>  Your problem is that you said here that Falcon only loses consistently to
>Shredder and now you need an excuse. But you needn't, actually. Just accept WCCC
>is not a measure of strength but just a party for programmers and teams and try
>to prove your strength in more scientifically tests like SSDF.
>
>  José C.
>
>
>>>
>>>The multi-processor entries got the first 5 places in the tournament - this was
>>>partly unexpected by some, probably including you. Had you been aware of it
>>>before the event you probably would have tried to get better hardware in case
>>>your engine can use it successfully. Every other answer is a bit hard to believe
>>>for me.
>>>
>>>Peter



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