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Subject: Re: WCCC Hardware Uniformity

Author: Sally Weltrop

Date: 21:30:07 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!!
>
>After all, we are just testing which chess search program is better, right?

I'll just bring a abacus and drink some coffee and I'll win



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