Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:55:42 07/31/01
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On July 31, 2001 at 08:35:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 31, 2001 at 01:17:52, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>In Chessbits forum I read, that in 18th WMCCC multiprosessors are allowed and >>because of this Rebel, Tiger and Gandalf are NOT playing? Hope, that Crafty18.10 >>is there! >> >>Jouni > > >I decided not to attend. Seems unfair to continue to change the rules at the >last minute without sufficient time for everyone to secure good SMP hardware. >This event has _always_ been uni-processor. Changing it this late in the >year is incredibly stupid... Yes, that was dumb. You see an event coming, and you prepare for it. If it's going to be an open-hardware event, you develop a multiprocessor version, if you are serious about being as competitive as you can be. If you don't know it's an open hardware event, you could end up postponing an SMP version and not have one. You end up being not very competitive, you could even end up buying the wrong hardware even if you do have an SMP version. The annoying thing is that I doubt that anyone at the ICCA gave this a thought and/or cares at all. I doubt that many of the amateurs would have gone multiprocessor specifically for this event if it had been announced in advance, and those who are already SMP, still are. The professionals have had plenty of time to see the writing on the wall and develop an SMP version. If you don't want to go, don't go. But really, whose honor are you defending here? bruce
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