Author: Luis Smith
Date: 12:49:39 07/14/04
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>Nobody is interested in that. The goal is the best chess from a computer >system. Who cares who would win on uniform hardware. That has been done >already in the past and nobody cared. Now you want to repeat the "nobody >cares" tournaments? >As a computer scientist, I want to see what is possible. I want to see the >frontiers of the problem explored. That is how we learn. It is about chess, >not about egalitarian hardware restrictions. > >The field is level already. There is a game called chess. Using the resources >available in the world, build a system to play the best chess. That is what is >interesting. > >Your notion of computer chess championship seems to be one focused on finding >the best programmer, which is not the same as finding the best chessplayer. >The best chessplayer will play the best chess. If the best chess comes from a >supercomputer, then I want to see it and discover the new boundaries, the new >benchmark. > >You people seem to be utterly lacking in intellectual curiosity. That's not a >bad thing necessarily, but it does generate the kind of posts we are seeing >where people are not interested in the best chess, but some other human-related >self-esteem building excercise. That sort of thing has no place in this field >of endeavor. I don't think Hsu could have said it better himself
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