Author: James T. Walker
Date: 06:40:38 05/01/01
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On May 01, 2001 at 04:33:28, Tony Werten wrote: >It's already a long discussion but one thing is unclear to me. > >Why does GT have to be smp to participate in the challenge for Kramnik >tournament ? Last dutch championship Fritz participated on a dual machine and >finished third. Tiger won the tournament with 2 points more, the King (also >single processor) finished second. > >So why exclude a single processor program that has proven to be capable of >beating multi processor programs ? > >cheers, > >Tony Hello Tony, There was no requirement for Tiger to be SMP. Since Christophe stated he already had an SMP version and could make it ready for competition in a few days that was not the reason Tiger was denied a chance to play. It seems to me that Tiger was systematically eliminated by the people running the tournament for some other unknown reason. We are all only left to speculate as to what the real reason was. Personally I believe Deep Shredder should have been the one to play without a qualification tourney but if a tourney had to be held then Tiger should have been permitted to join as an SMP version. Since 3 programs cannot play at the same time, there was no real reason that Tiger could not have entered after a few games already played between Fritz/Junior. Another point is why are they playing on 2 processors if the final will be on 8 processors? Seems like the sponsor should have provided two 8 processor machines to run the tourney on since they will play entirely different on 8 vs 2. Since Kramnik is demanding a copy of the winner to practice against and find it's weakness I'm surprised that he did not also demand an 8 processor machine to run it on. This entire thing is as phoney as a 3 dollar bill. Just my humble opinion. Jim
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