Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 14:21:58 12/30/03
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On December 30, 2003 at 15:31:55, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >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. You can be the best horse trainer in the world, but if you are given a donkey, you will never win any race. The the only way to focus on horse training is to provide everyone with a horse or with a donkey. The current system is a horse vs donkey race. > >>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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