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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 08:26:47 07/14/04

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On July 14, 2004 at 11:12:14, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Not at all, Omid
>If you already have a parallel engine you should run it into a hardware capable
>of getting all its power.

I understand that you are going to provide the hardware, right?

It is not something personal; next year I will have the needed hardware, but
what about others? Deep Sjeng and ParSOS were also parallel engines, but ran on
single processor not because they thought it was better, but because they did
not have access to a fast multiprocessor machine.

The analogy of Vasik Rajlich best fits our case:

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http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?376694

Since we all like analogies, here's another one: using steroids in sports. You
could allow it, and allow all competitors to juice themselves up as they see
fit. The spectators would surely love the performance, and it would be "fair" -
everybody could juice up as they saw fit. Those who stay clean, pay the
performance price which they choose.

The drawback is that it becomes a huge burden for everybody. The athletes would
have to juice up just to be competitive. This is the role that big hardware
plays now in the WCCC.
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>If you have not, then  you should as much that is by now the state of the art.
>You just cannot ask for a tournmamet tailored to the needs of your program.
>So it is unnecesary to blame other programs -or the tournament rules- because
>they were running this or that superior horse. I understand you feel frustrated
>because your program was better than thought, got more than perhaps you though
>he would and so you fed hopes to go upper in the ladder. That did not happen to
>the measure you begun to aspire and so you are now enraged.
>That is not neccesary, also. You did very well. Next time youi will use anything
>to get the most of your programming. Next time you will have not this feeling
>that "I they have used just this or that, like me...."
>Please take all this as coming from a friend, not a foe.
>fernando



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