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Subject: Re: WCCC: Almost no hardware advantage for Crafty

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 12:56:30 06/29/04

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On June 29, 2004 at 12:55:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 29, 2004 at 12:23:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On June 29, 2004 at 11:59:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>Please reserve a 16 way or above for 2005 already then for crafty.
>
>I'll do my best...
>
>Although why it matters to you is beyond me...  seems you would be more
>interested in trying to handle your _own_ problems...

That you like to discourage others from joining events such as the world
championship and you do not understand why others like you to join is a matter
of personal taste which i do not follow very well, but i guess everyone has his
own right to belief something, even nihilists...

>>>On June 29, 2004 at 07:28:11, Peter Berger wrote:
>>>
>>>>Was there any reason to believe that Crafty would have a big hardware advantage?
>>>>
>>>>It doesn't surprise me that ChessBase has similar abilities to organize fast
>>>>hardware as Bob Hyatt.
>>>>
>>>>The only ones who will truely suffer are the ones who have to use the default
>>>>hardware, playing against opponents with 10 times faster systems ...
>>>>
>>>>Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>With more time we would have had an advantage.  8-way was doable but not on a
>>>30-day notice.  16-way and beyond was also doable given enough time...
>>>
>>>But the good news is that we have a little advantage anyway, since we will
>>>really be running a 64 bit program and the processors are a tad faster to boot.
>>>IE at least we don't enter with a disadvantage of any kind. :)
>>>
>>>Also we know that my parallel search works well on this box.  The others will be
>>>a mystery...



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