Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:53:26 07/14/04
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On July 14, 2004 at 13:52:51, Sean Empey wrote: >On July 14, 2004 at 13:39:47, steven blincoe wrote: > >> >>> >>>Maybe you shouldn't base your sayings on a site who isn't interested in >>>promoting computer chess but making money. What do you think any commercial on >>>TV or advertisement does? Ever heard of small print? You think they are going to >>>go into the details of the tournament? A title is a title. Is it really that >>>difficult to grasp? >> >>actually its exactly what i expected >>and it illustrates the point quite nicely,i think,that except perhaps for some >>members here,the rest of the world considers the WCCC to be the premiere test of >>program strength..hardware...geee..whats that? >>we here are not indicitive of the rest of the world.. > >You act like the WCCC is this _huge_ public event that the world tunes into. I >bet 99% of those who know of it and follow it are members here or at least know >it's open hardware. I think that this estimate is wrong. A lot of the people who hear about it even do not know that hardware is important in computer chess. This is a public event and a lot of non programmers hear about it and do not expect them to know that hardware is important even if they hear that it is open hardware event(and not everybody heard that it is open hardware event). I remember that I talk with a person who supported the decision not to allow changes in software in the israeli league(in the year that computers were allowed to play) and he was surprised to hear that a change in the hardware is not less importance for playing strength of the programs. He thought that almost all the progress in computer chess is because of better software and that better hardware is relatively unimportant. A lot of chess players know that Fritz beated Deep Blue in 1995(it was deep blue prototype) and the conclusion of part of them is that hardware is probably not very important. Uri
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