Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Conclusion(Amir Ban,Christophe Theron please respond)

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 12:31:54 12/30/03

Go up one level in this thread


On December 30, 2003 at 14:33:10, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On December 30, 2003 at 11:49:11, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>>But tournaments where people are allowed to use any hardware
>>they can find (non-uniform platform tournaments) are a pure
>>nonsense.
>
>I posted about that several times, last time probably 2 weeks ago. In short:
>would you be happy if organizers provide to every participant 16-way Itanium2
>system, and insist that all programs will run on that hardware? That is uniform
>hardware tournament, right?
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene
>
>>    Christophe

I'm with CT. I'm not interested in the hardware competition. I'm interested in
the chess software competition on equal hardware with enough games to produce a
meaningful result. I want to know which program to buy. This is what interests
most chessplayers like it or not. The heavy iron efforts are just a curiosity.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.