Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:22:26 07/14/04
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On July 13, 2004 at 04:33:02, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On July 12, 2004 at 18:14:15, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On July 12, 2004 at 17:05:01, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> >>>http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~davoudo/games/pgn/games.pgn >> >>Are you planning to make an SMP version of Falcon? > >It was almost ready for this year, but we were too busy with the organization to >manage a parallel system. But next year I will surely participate with Deep >Falcon. > >Entering this tournament with a single processor machine is meaningless. You are >much better than your opponent, and get crushed by his speed (e.g., see Falcon >vs Crafty). Omid, stop whining. I have looked at the game a bit. Crafty's hardware didn't do you in. Some endgame knowledge holes did it to you. Try any program on the position after Crafty played a5. They will say white is winning. Try them on the position after Falcon played Ra8. They will say "white is not winning." That's a simple knowledge failure, not a search failure. Crafty sees that white is no longer winning in only a few seconds on the opteron system. For example, on my 700mhz laptop, the score starts to get good for black after 40 seconds. Crafty could have won after that point playing on an abacus probably. Get off the "my hardware sucked and it wasn't fair" and just fix the problems for next year. That way you may make some progress. Whining about hardware won't help as I'll do my best to play again, and to have decent hardware. And when I lose, I just lose without making all those excuses...
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