Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:51:48 12/13/04
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On December 13, 2004 at 17:14:36, Joachim Rang wrote: >On December 13, 2004 at 16:11:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >> I prefer 30 for watching, and 30 for scheduling, because the games go quicker. >>Just so long as everyone has to use the same time control, it will be fair. > >and as long as everybody has to use the same hardware, right ;-)? For 99 out of 100 chess programs -- they run at the same speed on one CPU as they would if 64 CPUs were available because they are not SMP/NUMA capable. There have been Mac programs entered in the past. They won't run on Windows or Linux without porting. Ernst Heinz used to run on Alpha machines. The KKUP contests used to be normalized for hardware, but I think that only a correspondence speed contest can do that properly. And most people today do not have the patience for it.
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