Author: Charles Roberson
Date: 17:44:28 05/20/04
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I was at the meeting in 2002 when we voted to drop hardware limits. The simple fact is --- the history of the tournament indicates that while speed may improve a given program, raw speed is not enough to win. Clear example: in the late 1990's, at the Jakarta tournament, Shredder's machine was damaged in transit. A loaner was used -- it was a single proc pentium 90. That machine and software beat deep blue and tied for first against a 1000+ node supercomputer. Then shredder (on an pentium 90) beat the supercomputer in the tie breaker match. There are other examples. Besides, it was great fun to have a few good games or good games to a point against multi-proc machines when I had a laptop. Of course, the laptop paid off in the speed tournament. All the others were sweating due to efforts to breakdown and move equipment between rounds. It was very easy with a laptop. Charles
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