Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:56:48 09/28/03
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On September 27, 2003 at 23:15:49, enrico carrisco wrote:
>On September 27, 2003 at 21:28:54, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>the only improvements i see in tiger since version 0.0001 which impressed
>>>>>tactically in paderborn a lot of years ago when operated by Thorsten Czub,
>>>>>is that tigers evaluation has become better.
>>>>>
>>>>>I see not a single other improvement in tiger that i find worth mentionning.
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>>>>Fortunately I do not work in the purpose of impressing you.
>>>>
>>>>If I did, maybe I would look for a 501 processors computer... That's as
>>>>impressive as useless, but maybe some like it...
>>>
>>>what's wrong with going lossless a few plies deeper?
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>>What is wrong is the idea of stacking a pile of hardware that *nobody* will ever
>>really use for that purpose and to claim any superiority from that.
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>> Christophe
>
>It could be thought of as a double-edged sword of sorts.. If DIEP gets its ass
>handed to it when running on brute hardware such as that, well...
>
>-elc.
That's one of the psychological reasons why you cannot really lose if you play
on (even slightly) inferior hardware.
By playing on a too much superior hardware you are running the enormous risk of
drawing or even losing a game. If it happens you look ridiculous.
Even today everybody remembers the game won by Fritz against Deep Thought in
1995. Or the incredible victory of Ed Shröder against the mainframes in Madrid,
1992. Or Sargon II on 6502, also winning against several mainframes in 1978.
Christophe
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