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Subject: Re: Live US-based computer chess tournament

Author: Joshua Shriver

Date: 18:38:24 07/09/04

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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.

As I've said in previous posts, you've hit it right on the nail. I agree 100%.
It's the code that matters, if HW is a factor then whoever has the most $$ for
HW or can loan HW is an unfair advantage.

-Josh



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