Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:39:52 07/13/04
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On July 13, 2004 at 21:01:23, steven blincoe wrote: >pitting the Mephisto Excalibur...first dedicated computer to ever run on the >68000 Processor: >http://www.schachcomputer.at/rarexcalibur.htm > >versus this.. >the Fidelity Decorator >Z80A processor running at 4mhz > >http://www.schachcomputer.at/rardecorator.htm > > >now who will win? > >the Excalibur will eat the Decorator for lunch >Steve Take a cruise around here: http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/wcc-comp.htm and you will see that all sorts of strange combinations of programs have competed, including hardware solutions, and software solutions. stats collected from: http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85924109/ssdf/rlwww042.txt If the Fidelity Prestige (one of the weakest chess machines of all time): 255 Fidelity Prestige 6502 4 MHz 1561 64 -66 118 44% 1603 met the mighty Shredder 8.0 CB on a 1200 MHz Athlon: 1 Shredder 8.0 CB 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz 2818 34 -32 481 70% 2673 There is a win expectency for a difference of 1258 points is 0.000715631, which means that with 1400 games played (on average) the Fidelity Prestige would score a point. It could happen on the first try, by one of those freaks of probability that happen from time to time. The WCCC and WMCCC are championships. They do not determine the strongest program in the world. They proclaim a championship. Why should that disturb anybody? Every major sporting event is held that way. If I show up at an unlimited hydroplane race with a 50 horse Merc on a home-built hydroplane, I am not going to win. They would not even let me try. That is one of the strange things about the WMCCC and WCCC type contests. You can show up with a program written in Java and run it on an embedded CPU in a mobile phone if you want to. Just don't expect to take home any trophies.
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