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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:22:30 07/13/04

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On July 13, 2004 at 19:50:13, Lance Perkins wrote:

>Yeah, and that few percent is all it takes for Thinker to loose.
>
>Btw, there are already countless tournaments like that. I wouldn't bother going
>half-way around the world for that. I can do that tournament myself. And if I
>did join, I will later complain about my non-GM-made book and my cheap-old VC5
>compiler, my small eval, the lack of EGTB, non-optimal move-ordering, weaker
>king safety, and a host of other "non-equal" things.
>
>In short, no, thanks. Its not the WCCC that developers will go to.
>
>Btw, if I could get parallel search working on Thinker, I 'might' join next
>year's WCCC, and bring whatever is the latest HW I can afford by that time.

It would probably take you one weekend, unless you have globals all over the
place, in which case it would take you two weekends to write a threading
version.  Might make Thinker nudge through the 100K barrier though!




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