Author: James T. Walker
Date: 15:51:03 12/03/00
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On December 03, 2000 at 10:32:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 03, 2000 at 09:38:05, Ritter Rost wrote: > >>On December 03, 2000 at 03:37:40, Gregor Overney wrote: >> >>>I can read commercials about buying computers at CCC, political discussions >>>about a countries elections, and tons of people publishing their results about >>>engine vs. engine on a single CPU. Well, those "limited" engine vs. engine posts >>>might just be acceptable, but the others are definitely not suitable for this >>>group. >>> >>>Either we get rid of moderators or they start doing their job. CCC is not >>>getting faster by adding messages that are absolutely not related to CCC. >>> >>>BTW, why do I not like engine vs. engine wars running on the same CPU? Some >>>chess programs rely on extremely fast searches. Other rely more on clever >>>evaluation functions and search much less nodes. For the first type of engines, >>>frequent cache flashes are a much harder penalty than for those engines that do >>>not search a la brute force. So, if you have the need to test your engine, but >>>you have only one CPU available, try some free chess server to compete with >>>others. Otherwise, give those engines a change to "maxout" their performance on >>>a "undisturbed" CPU. A dual CPU system is more or less acceptable. - And use two >>>identical systems since a comparison of Crafty running on PII/300 compared to a >>>run on PowerPC 400 MHz does not provide too much useful input. If you just want >>>to find out how your system compares, check out SpecINT2000 since it contains >>>Crafty as one of its test programs (see >>>http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/CINT2000/186.crafty/docs/186.crafty.html). >>> >>>Gregor >> >> >>The level of personal attacks in CCC has never been as low as under the current >>moderation. >> >>A lively group needs a lively discussion culture to maintain some social >>coherence. Since its so difficult to conduct a meaningful discussion about >>computer chess if you aren't a programmer (see the "new paradigm idiocy") or if >>you aren't a chess player, contribution possibilities are reduced to mere boring >>bean counting. >> >>So a little off topic here and there helps the sanity of this forum. > > >I tend to agree. I simply "self-moderate" topics I am not interested in, by >just not reading them. Some off-topic threads are interesting. As long as >they don't go on forever, nor cause complaints. I automatically ignored all political post since I live in Florida and I'm bombarded with it daily. However I would like to register my complaint in advance of all off topic discussions. :>) Jim P.S. I live in constant fear of my "dent" being ignored completely.
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