Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:45:43 10/14/03
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On October 14, 2003 at 08:50:45, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>On October 14, 2003 at 03:55:24, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>The problem of SSDF is that i need to pay them a few computers in order to
>garantuee diep to be at the list in time (before versions of other competitors
>get released which had again months of time to get tuned). They play in 3 months
>of time less games than Jan Louwman used to do in 1 month. Additionally i am not
>capable of shipping each week a new book to be used there.
>
>Principally speaking, I am not willing to do donate hardware to a surgeon who
>can pay for his own.
I have topped the SSDF two times and never had to donate any hardware.
I did not send book updates every week.
You are living in a world of misconceptions...
>In the meantime you get more and more pathetic claiming that PSQ isn't outdated
>and that being parallel is not so important.
I claim nothing like that.
> Especially that last is really
>pathetic knowing that all cpu's are either dual core or SMT already or will
>become that soon and just like you can set hashtable bigger, you will be capable
>of using more cpu's too when being parallel.
>
>If you are simply too lazy to make this yourself, then blaming with poor excuses
>that being parallel is bad, is not going to improve your estimation of other
>programmers.
I'm blaming nobody for producing a parallel chess program.
>Especially knowing you as a very intelligent person, it is for me really hard to
>understand that you can't be objective at that terrain and confuse commercial
>interests, tiger not being parallel, with objective truths.
It's hard to follow what you mean, you know.
>Also not acknowledging that the only big improvements of the first few tigers
>versus current ones are evaluation. I remember a tiger version joining IPCCC
>(was it 1998 or something?) that played 1.e4,e5 2.Bd3 by itself. This is real
>dissappointing.
It did not play 2.Bd3
It played 2.Bd3!!
Or maybe it was not my program?
If it was my program, did it lose the game? Against which opponent?
Or maybe it was a prepared line to get the opponent out of book quickly. I don't
remember.
>Further with 1 exception who is also completely chanceless to win the world
>title (The King) everyone who makes a chance for the world title joins there in
>Graz. That includes Sjeng and Brutus and Junior and Shredder and even Fritz. And
>insults of Chrilly is not going to stop any of them to participate which is
>encouragable.
>
>That should tell you *something*.
What should it tell me?
That in a lottery anybody can win?
Sure.
>Yet i am honored that you guess i will be making in the long run a good chance
>with DIEP to win the world title,
Anybody, I told you above.
Christophe
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