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Subject: Re: Hardware and WCCC limits? 1/4 MB !

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 22:02:26 05/18/04

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On May 19, 2004 at 00:29:42, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>Are there any kind of hardware limitations in computer competitions?
>
>If not, I'd imagine people would just bring a small custom cluster.
>
>TSCP would beat Hiarcs or Shredder if tscp was parallelized and Hiarcs was on a
>486.
>
>Just an idea; perhaps there should be some kind of limitation.
>If not then you're not really testing the strength of the engines, but a
>combination of code and hardware. In that case, whoever has the most money has a
>huge advantage. Especially if clustering is allowed.
>
>Just my $0.02, curious to your opinions.

Have you ever seen my limitation proposal to that theme at:

[http://homepages.compuserve.de/rescharn/Compu/schachfair_e.html]

Regards, Reinhard.



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