Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 08:34:52 01/15/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 11:10:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 15, 2003 at 10:12:12, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On January 15, 2003 at 09:31:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On January 15, 2003 at 04:59:32, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >>> >>>>I think the main point of Bob is to get a "I was wrong" from Vincent Diepeveen ! >>>>;) >>> >>>It is more likely I will get hit by a snowball delivered from hell, I believe. >>>:) >>> >>>Some arguments are unanswerable. IE is DB stronger than DF. Because DB is >>>gone. But other arguments can easily be proven or disproven. This is one. >>>Because >>>I have the 1997 versions of Crafty and I have 1997 hardware platforms here. The >>>only thing "missing" is Vincent, where he finally gets a chance to "proof" >>>something >>>in a real test. >>> >>>And he disappears or changes the subject... >> >>Maybe Vincent thinks you would cheat, and substitute Crafty on a supercomputer. >> >>Bob D. > >How? The old version would be available to anyone interested in testing >it. It would be pretty obvious if I got to depth=15 and someone with a >1ghz pc could only get to depth=13. > >The point here is that I _can't_ cheat. Never could. Can't claim my SMP >speedup is something it is not, because I release my code. Contrary to "some" >that claim their code does this or that but nobody can look to see if that is >true or not. > >Hard to cheat when everything is out in the open. > >Now as to whether Vincent would use a computer to help _him_ or not is >another whole issue, as that would be far harder to detect than my using >some ultra-modern hardware or program version. I had the impression that Vincent lives in Europe. Surely, he would not travel all the way to Birmingham, Alabama, USA, just for a few games. [Besides, you might use your Black Belt against him! You might lose your cool and deck him! Seems likely to me. : ) ] That implies that the game would have to be played on the Internet or on a chess server such as an ICC server. Under those circumstances, Vincent would have no way to confirm that the computer he was playing against were "as advertised." To make your challenge viable, it is necessary to find a way around this problem. Then if Vincent refuses, he is clearly BAD! You could consider taking your computer to him. : ) Bob D. <snip>
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