Author: Keith Evans
Date: 21:42:14 07/02/02
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On July 03, 2002 at 00:21:41, Russell Reagan wrote: >On July 02, 2002 at 22:59:09, David Dory wrote: > >>If you think of the "open" hardware contests as more of a show (of what can be >>done, and what still can't be done), set in the format of a competition, you'll >>be able to enjoy them much more. > >I guess the main thing that I dislike about the whole thing is that it's titled >a "world championship", which implies that the winner is (in theory) the best in >the world. When I think of the best in the world, I don't think of a simple >alpha-beta program with piece-square table evaluation running on a giant super >computer that dominates the field. Now consider an advanced program like Diep >running on that hardware. Maybe there should be the "open hardware" world >champion and the "equal hardware" world champion. I would like that much better, >because then we could differentiate between the "best engine" and the "person >with the most money" (or person backed by someone with the most money). > >Russell When has "a simple alpha-beta program with piece-square table evaluation running on a giant super computer" ever dominated the field?
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