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

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 12:34:24 12/30/03

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On December 30, 2003 at 15:31:54, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>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.

Ok then, the next tournament should be in a dual G5 :-)

Miguel





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