Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:33:11 08/27/00
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On August 27, 2000 at 00:01:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Nobody, but the last players(Francesca and Xinix and pquexpert) could use pIII1000 instead of celeron600 ,PIII550 and Celeron333 in this case. I think that it is not fair to give someone worse hardware not because of the fact that the program cannot use better hardware. Uri
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