Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 21:14:01 07/02/02
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On July 02, 2002 at 21:20:11, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >On July 02, 2002 at 20:42:16, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>Which computer chess tournaments have hardware limitations and which are >>"anything goes"? >> >>To me, a tournament between computers where "anything goes" is meaningless. > >Although a more or less agree with the general thrust of your bulletin, I think >it would be a mistake to assume that NOTHING good could come out of the wccc >competitions. I don't think that nothing will come out of it. As Keith mentioned in another reply, someone could develop a new techniques for using larger systems. When I say it's "meaningless", I mean that if Diep wins and it's hardware is ridiculously faster than anyone else's, it doesn't mean that Diep is a better chess engine. >But what if DIEP loses? If Diep loses, all that will tell us is that it either isn't very good, or it's extra hardware didn't help it. It might also mean that we overestimate the importance of extra hardware. >I look forward to hearing the details about how, and to what extent, DIEP had to >be modified to make it work well on the 1024-processor computer. I think it would be funny if the 1024 processor machine only ran Diep about 4x as fast. Surely diminishing returns take over at some point. Russell
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