Author: Prakash Das
Date: 20:52:11 06/02/99
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On June 02, 1999 at 15:30:41, Tania Devora wrote: > > >What is the hardware for the 9th Wccc99 ? > >There are many strong computer programs that not go to participate in this >World championship , like Chessmaster6000, and many others. > >I think that this is not a fair play . Cilkchess and others programs will run is >a Super machines, is evident that could win easy. > >For me all the programs, will run in the same computer with the same ram memory. > >Is the only way to see the real strengh of the program. > >For example Fritz5.32 in a Pentium III 500 MHZ could beat Fritz5.32 (pentium 200 >mmx) , for a big score. Tania, you are wasting your breath. A while back, I started a thread called "Uneven hardware for wmcc?" in which I questioned the purpose of this self-congratulatory exercise. Most of teh replies went like this: it's fun, it's like creating a Mount Olympus of chess programs, we are coming with the meanest baddest machine, etc etc. No one really cared about addressing the real point: what the hell is going to be accomplished. So, sit back, and get ready for a few yawns. You will see the same old programs which are at "top of charts" decimate the others (not bad programs necessarily) running on weak hardware. If we tried to solve cancer in this "scientific" manner, there's no hope for living beings.
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