Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 14:10:17 07/13/04
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On July 13, 2004 at 16:41:49, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 13, 2004 at 15:37:32, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On July 13, 2004 at 13:11:35, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On July 13, 2004 at 11:55:35, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>> >>>>On July 13, 2004 at 11:23:29, Eydun Lamhauge wrote: >>>> >>>>>How strong is Ruffian compared to the engines that participated in WCCC 2004? >>>>>Would Ruffian have made a top three position? >>>> >>>>No. Top 5 positions were already taken by those running on quad opterons. >>>>Assuming Ruffian would have participated with a non-parallel version, it would >>>>have reached the 6th place at best. >>> >>> >>>To avoid any further disadvantage for the single processor programs, I recommend >>>two group of winners for next year! >>> >>> >>>Trophies for the SMP programs And for the single processor programs >>> First group Second group >>> >>> 1st Deep Junior 1st Jonny >>> 2nd Shredder 2nd Falcon >>> 3rd Diep 3rd IsiChess >>> >> >>While you are at it, why not restrict search to 8 plies ? That would eliminate >>the disadvantage to FIBChess, for example. >> >>Amir > >Not enough. > >Unfortunately even 8 plies are enough to beat FIBchess easily. >That program is simply not competitive. > >There is also a clear difference between the suggestions and you know it. > >single processor winner is at least winner in something with practical meaning >for people(not everybody is using more than one cpu). More than 90% of the people have a single processor. Therefore, it is very important to recognize the best single processor winner. As a matter of fact we can recognize Jonny for being the single processor winner out of that pool that participated and Falcon as the 2nd best program :-) Jorge >The problem with the suggestion is that deciding about a single processor winner >in WCCC prevents you to play for both titles so if there is a competition for >best single processor it should be in different time than WCCC >and practically there is a competition for best single processor (it is called >ssdf) and I believe that the ssdf will have no problem to test Jonny or Falcon >if the programmers ask them to do it. > > >Uri
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