Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:08:20 07/07/04
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On July 07, 2004 at 19:27:11, Bryan Cabalo wrote: >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!! flawed idea. What about the program that can't use more than one CPU? What about the program written in assembly language, say for a SPARC, or for an ITANIUM, or even a CRAY? Pick an architecture and you will certainly exclude a sub-set of possible players. A uniform-platform event is an interesting idea. But then again so is a "bring the biggest hammer you can find" event. IE would you want to exclude Deep Blue were it still playing? It had its own special hardware. What about Belle? What about the more recent Brutus with its special hardware? > >After all, we are just testing which chess search program is better, right? Not necessarily. We also want to know which chess _player_ is better. And the player is composed of both the program _and_ the hardware...
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