Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 00:10:36 07/14/04
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On July 14, 2004 at 02:04:06, Sune Fischer wrote: >Even if Omid was the greates chess programmer in the world and had written the >ultimate SMP engine, he would still need to get his hands on some super hardware >to be competitive. > >It's just as much, if not more, a contest of who can get the fastest hardware >than who can write the best program. >So if you want to be a WCCC don't spend too much time on programming, better >spend time on finding a big sponsor for your hardware! > >That's what makes it all a little silly, IMO. > >I don't really have an alternative solution, I believe we already have the SSDF >as a sort of world ranking on single cpus. An 11 round tournament could not >replace that anyway. > >-S. The WCCC is a contest with certain rules, and one of those rules is open hardware. Some people realize what a significant part of the event this is and they spend a non-trivial amount of time making arrangements to borrow top of the line hardware. Others down play the hardware aspect of the competition and complain because they get beat by someone who understood the contest better than they did. The only thing that is silly is that we programmers think it is a programming contest. I'm certainly guilty of that. If all you have is a hammer...
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