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Subject: Re: The

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 22:41:08 12/06/98

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On December 07, 1998 at 01:04:21, Havergal Brian wrote:

>I noticed that CM 6000 was running on a P133 in a game against Virtual Chess 2
>running on a PII 400.  Hmmm...
>You can't have these programs running on such different hardware and call it a
>real contest.
>Check out www.come.to/sccs for programs running on equal hardware.

In this tournament the computer hardware used was included in the PGN
game score. This is very important to include. Likewise the hardware
should be included in the crosstables (or results listings). To me the
program and the hardware it is run on should be viewed as a single playing unit.




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