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Subject: WCCC Hardware Uniformity

Author: Bryan Cabalo

Date: 16:27:11 07/07/04


Why doesn't everyone run their competitive chess programs with the same hardware
so that no single chess engine has a hardware advantage?

It seems unfair to me that some competitors have access to faster and better
hardware.  I would think of it as a science experiment where the only variable
is the chess engine itself and _not_ the hardware that its running on.  That is
the real test.  I want to see the real winner of this event competing on equal
hardware playing grounds.  I think this would help with hardware uniformity in
future WCCC events.  There has to be something in the rules about playing with
equal hardware.  Maybe after this year the WCCC could supply the use of one
computer for each participant, or even quad opterons for each participant!!

After all, we are just testing which chess search program is better, right?



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