Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:14:24 07/02/04
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On July 02, 2004 at 16:55:42, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >Could someone please give me some details about this? When the news came out >that Crafty would play I wasn't reading CCC. So I don't know the background. And >since normally the programmers must be present I take for a fact that Bob will >be there. > No I won't be there. I will be teaching my normal class next Tuesday. Peter Berger volunteered to do the book preparation for this event and operate crafty. I asked AMD about hardware and they offered the quad opteron we are using. >Please excuse my ignorance. BTW I think that besides the whole criticism against >such tournaments organised in real life instead of the internet I am happy that >Bob is back again in the race after such a long time of absenting. Of course >Crafty played already a couple of times but then with an operator and not Bob. > >Last question. I can't get any sense in the longer thread here about "no >hardware advantage for Crafty". Why was this a topic at all? Because Bob had >somewhere said tzhat he had a 4 processor AMD etc and both Fritz and Shredder >have that too. From where came the advantage claim? > >Thanks for any input. I had originally mentioned that for last year's event I had a 16-way box set up but then the ICCA said "author must attend." Omid said "If I thought I had a chance to win I would have come." I responded that I _did_ have a chance to win with that kind of hardware advantage but could not personally attend. When it became apparent that an operator could be used this year, it was too late to arrange a really fast box, although the quad opteron is still quite a machine for Crafty in 64 bit mode...
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