Author: José Carlos
Date: 07:47:37 05/27/99
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On May 27, 1999 at 07:55:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 27, 1999 at 01:50:09, Prakash Das wrote: > >>Reading this board (on an occasional basis) that Rebel will be using the fastest >> PC available, I hopped over to the rebel site, and see Ed's site boasting of >>using a Kyrotech. >> >> It occurred to me whether the various programs will be competing on their own >>chosen hardware? Thus, one participant would bring a fast computer while another >>will be using something else. This will surely hurt the guy on the slower >>computer. >> >> Shouldn't an event like wmcc be held on even hardware for all? Otherwise, >>what's the meaning of these results. Considering that the result will be used >>heavily for marketing purposes, etc. >> > >the short answer is "no". Because the purpose of the WCCC is to find the >best program/computer player in the world. It was _never_ an 'equal platform >chess event'. Otherwise Chess 4.x, Belle, Cray Blitz, deep thought, etc would >_never_ have been able to compete. I agree, but it would be a good idea to say it "explicity" in order to avoid confusion in non-expert public. The problem is that, later, this or that software company will say "... is the world computer chess champion" in its publicity. That's not fair according the rules of the championshop, I think. > >Don Beal used to host a uniform platform chess tournament, but he hasn't done it >in several years now. > > >> On another note, for a user like me, it doesn't matter if Rebel (just an >>example), finishes first using the fastest PC.. I never use the fastest >>processor, so the results are bit meaningless for me as user. What's the point >>of using the fastest processor etc, for the majority of end users? >> >> Even some older programs would do well, given the best hardware around. (I hope >>Rebel is not going to loudly use it's results for marketing. It already showed >>in the GM game it has big holes in positional understanding.) > > >Rebel is by _no_ means the fastest machine there. There will be at _least_ two >quad xeon boxes, plus a cluster of a couple of hundred pentium machines, plus a >Cray T3 with a couple of hundred alpha processors, etc. The K6/600 is a toy >when you consider those machines... José C.
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