Author: David H. McClain
Date: 04:35:30 07/08/04
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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? Bryan, This is a hardware tournament using chess playing programs. It's not a chess tournament. I questioned this last year, being somewhat naieve about it all, and the parameters to participate were explained to me. I drew my conclusions stated above. DHM
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