Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:57:22 05/04/01
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On May 04, 2001 at 13:33:55, Uri Blass wrote: [snip] >I am not so sure that it is enough to win. >In the last 2 WCCC tournament the biggest hardware did not win. > >Deep thought failed to win in 1995(Fritz3 was the champion) >Deep Junior,Deep Fritz,Ferret failed to win in 1999 and Shredder won. Dual Pentium class CPU's or Quad are not in the same league. Those machines perform about as well as a single advanced Alpha chip. Now, take 64 of them in SMP... The "bucket 'O CPU" approach used by some were non-SMP machines, so those are not comparable. The Alpha machine is such a stupefying advantage that it is aking to making everyone else use a 286. If Eugene could finish the 6-men tablebase files by that time, he would have another enormous advantage. These machines are I/O marvels. And you can load them with a boatload of RAM. Greasy-fast access to a full complement of 6 piece tablebase files would also be quite a large benefit. If Crafty uses a 64 CPU machine and nobody else has anything more powerful than an 8 way system, I think the contest is over before it even begins[*]. * unless you-know-who shows up.
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