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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:59:31 12/30/03

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On December 30, 2003 at 15:34:24, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>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


Funny, I was thinking 16-way opteron or alpha.  :)



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