Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 23:53:49 10/08/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 00:35:52, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 08, 2002 at 20:42:02, Rex wrote: > >>Sorry about this but people are FEED up with unfair tournies. LET all programs >>into a tourney with winner playing Kramnik. People are_not_stupid. When you >>NOT_ALLOW_ one of the top 5 programs in a tourney that determines who plays the >>best GM---PEOPLE understand this is not fair. If its a MP program thats fine. >>If its a single cpu program thats fine also. Each program has its uniqueness >>and should be reconized as that. > >But then, who's going to pay for it? :-) > >I think probably several programs got a raw deal here. But the bottom line is >that unless it was a chessbase program to face Kramnik, the tournament would >never have happened. > >Like the Deep Blue matches, the main importance is publicity. A million dollars >has not been ponied up out of pure curiosity. > >IMO-YMMV Another possibility that I left out is that it is funded by the hardware company and not by chessbase. In that case, I think the only thing that matters is that the program was SMP.
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