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Subject: Re: CCT5, was there something missing?

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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