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Subject: Re: New Ruls for a New Kind of Tournament to End allTtournaments

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 12:44:27 07/14/04

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On July 14, 2004 at 14:37:41, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>
>As much in the spirit of some reclamations that have ben made here what matter
>in a competition is not the best chess output possible, but the better refined
>and elegant software, I propose the follwing rules to an eventual fair, future
>competition
>
>a) Hardware cannot be superior than a 8088 PC. Anything faster than that is
>sheer abuse and just -and at best- a show of hardare proficiency, not of chess
>programming wit and acumen.
>b) For the same reason a program cannot be larger than 8 Kb. Anything larger
>than that is making unfair use of available memory addresses offered by current
>devices and going beyond the economy in lines-writting that elegance demands.
>c) no openning book alouded because this is a confrontation of wits, not of
>books
>d) search limit of only 3 half moves or you just get the upper hand on the
>ground of brute force
>e) BASIC programming language is a must. Anything better than that is just to
>take advantage of progress in areas alien to specific chess computers field.
>
>In fact the very best thing to do would be NOT bringing a completely assembled
>or writen code, but a shit of paper

LOL!!

 with the ideas that should be implemented to
>do so some day. In that way you put aside any kind of exogenous tool that
>viciously enhance a program beyond he wit of his author.
>
>Now I oly need some advices about tye name for this orunament, the first and
>only REAL one in prsent times to be ever performed.
>ferdinan
>Organizer



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