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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:15:54 05/19/04

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On May 19, 2004 at 01:02:26, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

You obviously never wrote a chessprogram writing such utter nonsense at your
homepage about executable size.



>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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