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Subject: Re: Hardware and WCCC limits?

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 06:57:04 05/19/04

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On May 19, 2004 at 07:27:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On May 19, 2004 at 03:35:39, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>On May 19, 2004 at 03:02:05, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>That is the goal of the WCCC, to have a competition between the best
>>>computerized chess playing entities, not to test which software is the best.
>>
>>Yes, but strictly speaking this would mean that a company selling program XYZ
>>wouldn't be allowed to write WCCC2004 winner on their software package, as it
>>was not the software but software+hardware which actually won the tournament.
>>
>>Sargon
>
>This is a nonsense of course.

Let me rephrase it: when you play a tournament like WCCC, where the pair HW/SW
is tested and your particular HW/SW combination wins, then it's not "correct" to
silently skip the HW part and just claim your SW part won.

I guess you still think it's nonsense. If so, you're welcome to be a bit more
specific and say _what exactly_ is nonsense about it.

Sargon



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