Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:39:53 04/29/01
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It seems clear why it wasn't invited to participate: 1) The organizer is going to use a multiprocessor machine. 2) Fritz and Junior run on a multiprocessor machine. 3) Tiger is known to not run on such a machine. 4) Tiger is very strong, but if it is stronger than Junior or Fritz, it's probably not stronger by much. 5) A multiprocessor machine should produce a significant performance boost. 6) It is hoped that the event will produce an "accurate" winner. If you allow these points, you can make a case that Tiger on a single processor can't be stronger than Junior or Fritz on a multi. You can also point to a possible embarassment to the hardware sponsor -- if a single-processor program is used on a multiprocessor machine, the hardware sponsor looks kind of stupid, since most of the machine is not used. And finally, if the event machine has even more processors that the qualifying machine, it can be assumed that Fritz and Junior would scale, and Tiger would not. I don't agree with some of the above, but I could understand the argument, if this is the argument that was made. In any case, I don't agree that the event should have been held, as I have stated elsewhere. bruce
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