Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:01:16 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 19:33:05, Christophe Theron wrote: >On August 26, 2000 at 04:37:35, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 26, 2000 at 04:33:53, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On August 26, 2000 at 04:07:27, Christophe Theron wrote: >>> >>>>On August 26, 2000 at 02:07:46, Peter Skinner wrote: >>>> >>>>>>I will not be able to devote time to help you, but I would like to see you >>>>>>organizing the event in Canada as you told us earlier, and I confirm I would >>>>>>come to this event in person, on my own expenses if needed. >>>>>> >>>>>>I hope you can find a sponsor for this and I believe that with a better Internet >>>>>>coverage the sponsor would not regret spending his money in the event. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Christophe >>>>> >>>>>Well thanks for your support. This is what I propose: >>>>> >>>>>1. Tournament will not be of the uni-platform system. It has been proven in the >>>>>past, that the biggest hardware doesn't always win, and thus is really a non- >>>>>substantial factor. Thus I do believe that it will not be used, and that is >>>>>great as some programs, such as JPConnors doesn't run on a single cpu ??? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Organizing a uniform platform event has indeed proven to be almost impossible. I >>>>would personally prefer to enter such an event, but most programmers are >>>>apparently afraid to play with equal weapons. Some are hiding behind their >>>>alledged superior architecture (but almost nobody can afford it so it's really >>>>of little interest), some others know they have more money and are counting on >>>>this to get an advantage... >>> >>>I think that it is better to decide that everybody has the right to use the >>>hardware of other players except the opponent. >>> >>>The only problem with this idea is that it will be impossible to do all the >>>games of the same round in the same hour but I think that using this idea can do >>>the tournament more fair. >>> >>>Uri >> >>I see one problem if both players want to use the same hardware. >>I think that to prevent the problem you need to decide that black is the first >>player to choose hardware(not of the opponent) >> >>Uri > > >The idea is anyway a little bit impractical. Not bad, just hard to apply in >practice. > > > > Christophe And generally worthless too. Who would want my quad xeon 550, instead of their PIII/800? Who can use 4 processors? Who would want an alpha if their program is not using 64 bit values? Etc.
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