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Subject: Re: CCT7 Time Control - Need an answer

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 16:16:34 12/13/04

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On December 13, 2004 at 18:48:30, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 13, 2004 at 18:16:44, Matthew Hull wrote:
>
>>On December 13, 2004 at 17:57:26, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On December 13, 2004 at 17:47:40, Joachim Rang wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 13, 2004 at 17:34:54, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>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 ;-)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>regards Joachim
>>>>>
>>>>>Unfortunately if everybody is forced to use Crafty's hardware there are not
>>>>>going to be a lot of participants.
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri
>>>>
>>>>I'm sure nobody would complain to play on a Quad-Opteron 850 although not all
>>>>participants may use all 4 processors.
>>>
>>>I am guessing that at least 3/4 of the entrants will have a machine as fast as a
>>>single processor from his quad.
>>
>>
>>IIRC, Bob does not have a quad.  He only borrowed one from AMD.
>
>Bob had a Quad Xeon, at least.


Bob does have a dual Xeon, 2.8ghz, which will be exactly 2 years old by now.
His quad Xeon are 700mhz, IIRC.  So nothing special there.



>Probably, the 64 bit system was borrowed.  I
>imagine they will lend it again if it gives them some good publicity.  Of he
>might borrow a 64 CPU one of these:
>http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/gs1280/



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