Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 16:30:50 07/02/04
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On July 02, 2004 at 17:29:29, Uri Blass wrote: >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 > >The rules also allow programmer to send operators but in this case double fee >should be payed. > >> >>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. > >It will be also with operator(peter berger). >> >>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 that 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. > >The hardware advantage of Bob is mainly relative to amateurs and not relative to >professional programs. > >I do not know why some people thought that shredder and Fritz are going to have >inferior hardware relative to Crafty. Thanks also for your clarification, Uri. It's really strange that some people made such a long thread about this fantasy. As I said, I didn't look through it after a short flight over the many messages. I know for sure that Bob, if he could have come, would have had an even better hardware for this event. But this is speculation right now. Anyway, I wish all participants all the luck in the world and I would like to see the programmers with a bit more civil courage if again such strange things should happen, like intentional giving up a game to support someone. I hold for Fritz, Crafty and Junior for first place. And most important I wish a peaceful tournament week. Bye for now. > >Crafty was the first to post his hardware and it is clearly better than the >other amateurs but I had no idea at that time what hardware is going to be used >by Fritz,Junior and shredder. > > > >We could expect at least 4*2 ghz for shredder based on sandro's post when he >said that Crafty will not get more than 2:1 hardware advantage relative to >shredder and he considered the possibility of 8 opterons for crafty in that >post. > >Uri
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