Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 19:39:26 05/14/00
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On May 13, 2000 at 17:16:34, Christophe Theron wrote: >On May 13, 2000 at 06:23:15, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On May 13, 2000 at 05:24:37, Graham Laight wrote: >> >>>Let's take a look at the points in favour of Crafty in the year 2000: >>> >>>* Popular opinion is that Crafty has recently made big improvements >>> >>>* The author (Bob) is the world's most experienced parallel processor chess >>>programmer >>> >>>* Only recently have people started writing parallel processor programs for PCs >>> >>>* Bob is now tuning his program to play at tournament time controls >>> >>>2000 could be Crafty's best chance ever... >> >>I think Crafty's best chance was last year, when Bob could have brought a big >>Alpha before most people were doing SMP at all. >> >>Dave > > >Which is not a very kind remark for Crafty, if you think about what you are >implying... :) > > > Christophe I'm implying that Bob had the chance for a bigger hardware edge at WCCC 1999 than I think he will have in the next WCCC, which IMO would have increased the odds of him winning. I'm not sure what you read into my statement, but basically I'm just saying that I believe that a factor of ten in hardware is still reasonably important. Dave
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