Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:19:26 10/22/97
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On October 22, 1997 at 06:33:23, Chris Whittington wrote: > >On October 22, 1997 at 05:16:45, Walter Ravenek wrote: > >>Since there is nothing in the tournament rules to forbid you >>to use the fastest machine you can get, it is no use complaining. >> >>However, it definitely is a point worth considering when organizing >>the next tournament. I would strongly be in favour of a uniform >>platform tournament. > >This is very difficult to define and would exclude all kinds of people >and hardware platforms that we might want to participate. > >I'ld like to see a generally 'fair' tournament. Like in my kids school, >they do sport and games. Each year group plays children of the same age. >Some children are bigger and fitter and their ages range over 0-12 >months difference. > >This isn't uniform, bit it is kind of fair, in general. What wouldn't be >fair, woudl be including players that were 1 or 2 or 3 years older. > >One thing that troubles me this year (and no doubt all the other years), >is that we only get to hear that so and so is using 100,000 TeraHertz at >pretty much the last minute (or last month or whatever), certainly after >applications have gone in, and also after I've paid my semi-irreversable >$1000 and sorted out an operator and all the other things that make the >application solid. > >If I knew, say 12 months before, what the top machine could be, I'ld >have time and space to (a) get one myself, (b) decide whether I wanted >to go at all, (c) not get pushed into some last minute desperate, >expensive effort at trying to compete. We would ALL get off more >cheaply, since we wouldn't be tempted to spend megabucks on some rare >fast liquid notrogen cooled monster that happended to becoem available a >few weeks beforehand. > I don't see how this is an issue. #1 was there any doubt that Dark Thought or Chess Guru would show up this year? #2 I didn't know any sooner than you did about the 766mhz machines (which as I have already said, I doubt if we get one of 'em). We started working on getting an alpha about 2 weeks ago, and had no problems in getting a decent machine from DEC. >Chris > > > >> >>Walter Ravenek
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