Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:11:37 07/20/98
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On July 17, 1998 at 20:26:46, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On July 17, 1998 at 15:16:23, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>We could vote on that. CCC offers the opportunity to vote, and many chess >>programmers could give their opinion. Personnaly I don't mind in fact. The most >>important is that we have an event with enough rounds to get a reasonnably >>reliable result. > >The organizer should just specify it. Part of organizing is that you get to put >on the tournament that you want. If I were organizing it, it would bother me if >people tried to put every aspect of the tournament to a democratic vote. > >I would like to see stuff settled before I get plane tickets though. I had some >concern that people would try to ban Alphas during the player's meeting at the >Paris event, and this would have bothered me greatly, considering that Seattle >to Paris was a pretty substantial plane ticket. > >>So we are talking about a "nearly uniform platform" event, WMCPC, which could be >>organized without any sponsor, as we already have a place to do it. >> >>Would you like to enter WMCPC with Ferret? > >I think this is too weird, but I might still show up. I don't like the idea of >trying to handicap programs running on different hardware, there is no way to >get it exactly right, and in some cases it might be hard to come anywhere close. > I don't think it makes sense to even try. > >If there is a uniform event running on provided hardware I am more likely to >show up than if there is a strange time handicapping system. > >bruce I think the "handicapping" idea is totally bogus anyway, because different programs like different platforms. I, for example, like 64 bit platforms, and get a bigger "boost" from a 64 bit machine than someone running a 32bit problem. So having to choose between a 16 specint alpha and a PII/400, it's a no-brainer in my case. Make it either open, or uniform. But nothing in between...
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