Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 17:07:56 11/20/03
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On November 20, 2003 at 19:21:56, Amir Ban wrote: >On November 20, 2003 at 11:00:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 20, 2003 at 10:57:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On November 19, 2003 at 18:25:40, martin fierz wrote: >>>> >>>>sheesh! >>>> >>>>if anyone is missing a point here it's you! why don't you read the post >>>>completely before crying wolf? >>>> >>>>matthew suggested that holding a CC world championship without US participation >>>>is about like playing a human chess world championship without russians. >>>> >>>>that statement is totally wrong. there is simply not a single US program which >>>>is anywhere near the top of computer chess, period. >> >>That statement is _totally_ wrong. The WCCC is an "open hardware" event. >>If you take the top commercial programs running on a single CPU box, and >>Crafty running on a big Opteron box, I'd claim Crafty has at _least_ as good >>a chance of winning as any one-cpu program, and probably better chances. >> >>You are overlooking the major difference between the WMCCC event and the >>WCCC event. Hardware is a _big_ part of the WCCC when the _right_ programs >>participate. >> > >There is no WMCCC any more. The one in 2000 was the last one. > >I guess if Crafty were given knight odds it would also have a fair chance at >winning, but what exactly does that prove ? > >Amir > ..Or we could all play without opening books. :) -elc.
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