Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:00:28 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 21:29:47, Dave Gomboc wrote: >There seem to be many comments re: commercials didn't show up because they might >not have won. Well, that might be part of it, but I think people are >underestimating the difference in strength between (for example) Fritz and >Crafty. Crafty can beat Fritz in any given game, but Fritz is a stronger >program, without question. The same goes for Chess Tiger, Junior, and the like. > >It would have been nice if some had played, but the tournament was entertaining >without them, I don't think it was that big a deal that they weren't there. > >Dave Yes, but there _are_ other considerations. Some of the above programs are not parallel searchers. The dual 2.8xeon I used is a big hammer. I would not object to playing any commercial single-cpu program and have a reasonable chance of winning. Equal hardware would change that expectation of course, but this wasn't necessarily "equal"...
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