Author: Karsten Bauermeister
Date: 16:13:48 03/24/98
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On March 24, 1998 at 18:19:33, Scott Carmichael wrote: > I think the fact that the winner is running on a mother baord that is >100Mhz faster than the majority of the others is a definite factor in >the results of this tournament tournament. Were there any limits placed >on the amount of RAM available to each program, or did you allow the >maximum provided by each system ? Because of the fact, that every participant was an real amateur everyone had to use his own hard- and software. Before (and after!) the tournament we discussed a limitation of Hardware, Opening Libraries or anythong else, but we agreed, that this will promote weaker chess! So we allowed evrything an operator could get. Fritz 5 for exxample started with 128 MB Ram (100 MB for hash tables), M-Chess used 60 Megs for hash. All the same all the top-programs got a hardware, especially M-Chess. Probably this gave an decisive advantage to the American program. Were the programs allowed to alter the >amount of RAM used in accordance with the time changes you mentioned >each program was allowed , or was the operator simply alowed to change >nothing but the time ? NO! The operators WERE NOT ALLOWED to change anything else than the time-control or the internal clock during the game. > Also, I think it is GREAT that people get together and have these >types of tournaments. I think that this could be applied on the ICC to >allow for a software only tournament across the world. Anyone game ? Yes, you are quite right! Everyone had great fun and therefore most of us will meet again in November in Weissendorf (sometimes called Weissenburg last november). Karsten
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