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Subject: Re: Live US-based computer chess tournament

Author: mike tubbs

Date: 17:11:37 07/09/04

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On July 09, 2004 at 19:27:20, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>On July 09, 2004 at 19:15:21, William H Rogers wrote:
>
>>I would love to see such an event with one exception and that is everyone uses
>>the same identical computers. Most people do not have access to multi cpu
>>machines and are interested in performance on machines that we might own. The
>>other reason is if the hardware is identical then only the strengths of the
>>programs will prevail which is what the contest should be all about in the first
>>place.
>>Bill
>>P.S.
>>This is not to knock Crafty or any other program that has been modified to run
>>on parallel machines. I hold Dr. Hayatt in hi esteem.
>
>Have we not beat this equal hardware business to death?
>
>Dan H.


  And why shouldn't we? If the Goal is to see which program is the strongest,
not who has the best hardware.



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