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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