Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:52:02 05/01/01
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On May 01, 2001 at 09:40:38, James T. Walker wrote: >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. I am interested to know if it was kramnik's idea or the idea of the sponsors. I do not know if kramnik asked to get a copy of the program. Uri
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