Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:05:03 05/19/04
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On May 19, 2004 at 08:39:58, Matthew Hull wrote: >On May 19, 2004 at 01:29:15, Derek Paquette wrote: > >>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. >> >>I have to disagree >>Fritz and Junior were running on quads last year and got beat out by Shredder > > > >Wrong. Shredder won by a half point because Johnny threw a drawn game against >Shredder, which is of course, cheating. > >Fritz was the real winner. It does not change the fact that the reason was not the hardware but the bug of shredder and shredder without the repetition bug could avoid letting Johnny to draw in the first place. I think that there is no reason to repeat the discussion about shredder-Jonny. The discussion here is about the importance of hardware and what happened in that game is irrelevant. Uri
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