Author: Peter Berger
Date: 03:39:22 12/23/03
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On December 22, 2003 at 22:59:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>To go back to the discussion that started this: it looks as if Crafty on 10 >>times faster hardware is indeed very competitive with a top commercial engine, >>but not necessarily the overwhelming favourite. > >That was my original point in response to Omid's rather crass "if they >thought they had any chance of winning, they would have come..." statement. > >And the main point is that I probably would not have been "just" 10X >faster. :) > Interesting. I think this was not challenged in discussion partly because there was no clear idea how much faster Crafty would have to be. Let's say you had planned to show up with 10X faster hardware with Crafty at WCCC2003. This is what Junior used there: http://www.chess.at/turniere/turniere2003/chess003/video/int2.wmv Intel 4* 2.8 GHz What would you have got for Crafty? Peter
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