Author: jonathan Baxter
Date: 19:17:52 06/25/98
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On June 25, 1998 at 19:51:56, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On June 25, 1998 at 12:12:40, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On June 25, 1998 at 02:52:50, jonathan Baxter wrote: >> >>>On June 24, 1998 at 18:15:59, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>>I tried to get the Australians to let me into their thing, and they balked. >>> >>>Who did you talk to? Problem may be that ferret would clean up here. I know of >>>no Australian program better than KnightCap. > >I'm hoping my program, lambChop, will be better than KnightCap. >Sounds like I might end up being at a large hardware disadvantage though - I >think KnightCap will be running on a 20 cpu machine. > Weeeellllll...... don't know about that. KnightCap has been ported to a 20 CPU power challenge but I doubt that the supercomputer people will let us use it exclusively for the tournament. Who did you hear this from? Andrew? However, I do plan to run a version on an 8-node 400MhZ PII Beowulf machine we have just bought. Don't know how well it will work though---parallel chess programming using ethernet could be difficult. Jonathan Baxter >> >>Someone posted something about the Australian championship here. >> >>I asked my wife if she wanted to go to Australia and she said sure. So I posted >>something to the effect of, if you let me in, I'll go. >> >>I don't remember who responded, but the general idea was that they were going to >>keep it closed, but might let in New Zealanders. >> >>I was counting on them letting in New Zealanders, because I was hoping to meet >>Peter McKenzie. I didn't want to go in order to win, I wanted to go in order to >>meet people and see Australia. >> >>No big deal, it is their tournament and they can do what they want. If they >>would rather keep the Americans and Europeans out, I can't object. >> >>bruce > >Maybe the Australian tournament will be open next year. >If this tournament at MIT eventuates, there is a decent chance I'll turn up. >Why not run it using ICC or FICS, and say have a couple of sites where programs >must be physically present. Maybe one site in the States, and one in Europe... > >cheers, >Peter
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