Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 07:56:50 04/23/05
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On April 22, 2005 at 21:27:22, Tony Petters wrote: >I hope they force every program to use one CPU with an equal amount of RAM, >otherwise, the games are not even ! > >Does anyone disagree with this ? Yes. I strongly disgaree with this. A World Championship Title should be just that -- no limitation or quailifications. A Men's World Championship should be limited to men. A Woman's World Championship should be limited to women. A World Chanpionship should be open to men and woman. likewise: A Computer World Championship should be open to all computers. If they called it something along the lines of "Equal Platform World Chanpionship" it may be appropriate - but even with that there is built in discrmination against different programmers. What is the operating system to be used? Which motherboard should be used? Whhich processor should be selected? How much ram should the machines have? etc , etc All of these items affect may chess programs unequally - some may prefer Windows, or may prefer linux, some may wish to have a 64 bit Opteron - who knows - Richard Lang may prefer a 286 or 386 DOS machine. I would not be surprised if someone like Dave Kittierger or Steve B argues that the "Equal Platform" must be a dediciated machine! Perhaps the Mephisto Modular system should be used and all programers must spend time to adapt their programs to a dediciated Mephisto module.!? In the end, there is simply way too much wiggle room and ultimately , one program will have some advantage (does not mean it will win) due to the hardware selected - so why even go through the charade that it can be made truly equal platform. IMO, it simply cannot be done. Best, Michael > >Is HYDRA going to play with all 32 processors ?
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