Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 02:19:55 05/15/00
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On May 14, 2000 at 22:39:26, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Seems to me that Bob will reassert his hardware edge with the beuwolf cluster. :) Not to many of you guys will be able to put together a beast like that.
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