Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:31:51 05/15/00
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On May 15, 2000 at 05:19:55, Jason Williamson wrote:
>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.
Makes me wonder if we play the same game. I'm not sure anymore.
Christophe
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