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Subject: Re: CCT7

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 16:34:15 02/10/05

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On February 10, 2005 at 10:20:17, Gregory Owett wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Do the engines play with equal chance? No.
>
>Note, as long as the programs run on different kind of machines, the result will
>be only relative.
>
>As if the racing drivers drove cars of categories varied. Logically, one
>couldn't classify them according to their own value.
>
>Gregory

Not true.

In every sport there is no "equal" platform. From racing, to baseball, to
hockey.... there is always some sort of equipment edge to be found.

The CCT event is about the best _program_ winning. It is an open hardware event.
You can take the worse program in the world and put it on the best hardware and
it will not win 100% of the time.

When the CCT is done we will have a winner. Plain and simple. What more is
needed than a tournament, a result, and the enjoyment of observing it?

Peter



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