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Subject: Re: I recommend two group of winners for next year !

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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