Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:25:10 04/24/05
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On April 23, 2005 at 18:40:58, Charles Roberson wrote: > > When we voted on this at the WCCC 2002 tournament, we decided there > was no need for WMCCC and WCCCC. The discussion came up under the concept > of what is a micro-computer since Hydra could fit in a PC. I think that there is no problem to define micro-computer. Micro computer is everything that does not allow speed improvement from parallel search. Hydra use parallel search so by definition it is not a micro-computer and size is not relevant here. > > After breifly reviewing the history of WCCC, we saw that platform is > somewhat irrelevant. Over a decade ago, Shredder's hardware was damaged > in transit. The TD's gave it a spare pentium 90Mhz machine (single > processor). Shredder went on to win the competition beating both Deep Blue > and a 1024 processor supercomputer. Shredder did not win WCCC in 1995 but Fritz on P90 did it. I do not think that the hardware of Fritz of demaged and P90 was simply the best hardware that was available for Fritz at that time. The Deep blue that is beated is only deep blue prototype and not the hardware that played against kasparov. I do not know how much hardware advantage it has because it has disadvantage of not using hash tables like other programs and I know that it cost it in missing a simple draw against Judit polgar because it did not detect a simple repetition. Uri
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