Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 22:26:46 06/23/04
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On June 21, 2004 at 18:10:01, Alan Grotier wrote: > Thanks for your reply.Yes you have a point.But finally what > does it all prove? > Is my thinking wrong in this case.We have a tournement.Mr A wins. > Mr B loses.Mr A's program ran on faster hardware than Mr B. > > Really what's the point?.......Alan What's the point? Well, maybe for you there is none. That doesn't mean there isn't one though. Recently I went to a baseball game. The girl sitting in front of me chose her 'favorite players' based upon how cute they were. That was the aspect of the contest that she was interested in. You are interested in one particular aspect of computer chess contests because you are a consumer. You want to know what program is going to play the best on your home computer. Right? I am a computer chess programmer, so when I see my program play other programs, I would prefer that equal hardware be used. That way I can measure my computer chess programming ability against other programmers. If I worked for AMD designing processors, I probably wouldn't care one bit about an equal hardware event. I would want to see the AMD processor I designed compete against an Intel processor and see which one performs better. See what I mean? There are many different aspects of the contest to be interested in, not just "which program will play the best on my home computer?"
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