Author: Sean Empey
Date: 11:59:44 07/14/04
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On July 14, 2004 at 14:53:26, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Ok. Thanks for the clarification. I don't know the exact number but feel more "techies" follow it, who should know. My main point is that it's not as big as a FIDE championship or other non chess championship event. It's for the most part unknown about. Even the Rock-Paper-Scissor world champion made it as a guest on the Conan O'Brien show.
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