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Subject: Re: WCCC: Almost no hardwareadvantage for Crafty

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 03:10:41 06/29/04

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On June 29, 2004 at 06:01:32, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On June 29, 2004 at 04:52:49, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On the german Chessbae-Site, their is an anouncement on which hardware Shredder
>>and Fritz will participate: 4x2.0 GHz Opteron and 4x2.2 GHz Opteron. It is not
>>clear which engine will use which machine, but I think it does not matter much.
>>But Crafty wiht 4+2.4 Ghz Opteron will only have a very slight advantage.
>
>
>     We have seen so many times already that hardware
>     is much less important than most people think.

Yes, but shortly before every WCCC even more people keep forgetting that :)

I would be dissappointed if there would be a year where there wouldn't be at
least 10 people stating that program X is going to win because it runs on the
fastest hardware. ( Don't bother, it's already way over 10 this year )


Tony

>     Kurt



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