Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 12:31:55 12/30/03
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On December 30, 2003 at 15:20:34, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>But tournaments where people are allowed to use any hardware they can find >>(non-uniform platform tournaments) are a pure nonsense. >> > >I completely agree with this. What is the point of program X running on a 2.4 >GHz machine against program Y which is running on a Quad? Does the result show >that program Y has better eval? better search? Nothing. It just shows that The point is to find the winner of the combination hardware+software. In other words, the top chess machine. It is not a software competition. >program Y can run over its opponent like a freight train. I think WMCCC events >will be more interesting and more meaningful from a scientific point of view. If there is science in building algorithms, there is some science in building hardware for chess too. Anyway, I will leave the word science out because any of these tournaments are more about sport. The important thing is the competition. Miguel
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