Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:27:32 03/30/04
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On March 30, 2004 at 17:23:18, Uri Blass wrote: >On March 30, 2004 at 16:47:05, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On March 30, 2004 at 14:49:55, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On March 30, 2004 at 14:08:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On March 29, 2004 at 14:26:30, Peter Skinner wrote: >>>> >>>>>On March 29, 2004 at 01:06:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>For the first time in the International CSVN Tournaments substantial prize money >>>>>>is offered. PAL Group sponsors the tournament and makes available US$ 1500 for >>>>>>first prize, US$ 1000 for second prize and US$ 500 for third prize as well. >>>>> >>>>>Again I must state that this tournament is becoming better and better each year. >>>>>With the added incentive of a cash prize, I am sure there will be a record >>>>>number of participants. >>>>> >>>>>Peter >>>> >>>> >>>>From experience, cash prizes are _not_ good. ACM started doing this. The >>>>result was more incentive to cheat than anything else... >>> >>>I think that they can come together with the duty to give the source code of the >>>program before the tournament to somebody who left competition in computer chess >>>like Ernst Heinz(programmers of Dark thought). >>> >>>If the commercial programmers do not trust him they will not come but I believe >>>that strong amateurs are going to participate and I believe that the gap in >>>strength between professional programs and amateur is going to become smaller or >>>maybe even the amateurs will become better because I understand that Tord plan >>>to continue to improve gothmog and I guess that there are good chances that in >>>less than 2 years from today it will become number 1. >> >>He could add 40 Elo with a simple recompile using either Intel or MS VC++. >>Using the Cygwin compiler is a terrible handicap, most of the time. > >It seems that he does not care about small improvement like 40 elo. >He is going for bigger improvement. And whenever he wants to, he can add the little incremental things like using a better compiler. It's already one of the strongest chess engines (of course Tord will deny it with his hand on a stack of Bibles) ;-)
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