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Subject: Re: I recommend two group of winners for next year !

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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