Author: José Carlos
Date: 12:48:33 07/14/04
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On July 14, 2004 at 15:44:27, David Dahlem wrote: >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!! Yeah, a shit of paper with a shit of program written in would be most fair conditions ever met! :) José C. > 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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