Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 14:29:17 05/17/00
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On May 15, 2000 at 15:31:51, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 <shrug> Bob's research work is in parallel and distributed algorithms. Computer chess is a high-performance application that is entertaining to program and serves as a good testbed for ideas. Other computer chess software developers (such as yourself) come from different perspectives, so I suppose it's natural for you to have that sort of question. Dave
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