Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 08:13:35 04/22/05
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On April 22, 2005 at 08:31:52, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On April 22, 2005 at 06:04:48, Peter Berger wrote: > >>http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/news/wccc/2005/ > >I found: (Hence, no Amateur title, no Microcomputer title, and no >single-processor title, as well as no multi-processor title). > >That indeed makes it uninteresting for amateurs having no bolides at hand. Uninteresting to you, perhaps, but you are generalizing too much if you claim that it is uninteresting for amateurs in general. I understand that titles have some importance for professionals, because they can have a great influence on sales (I suppose). But being an amateur, why should I care about titles? An "Amateur computer chess world champion" title or something similar would be utterly worthless to me. For me, the only point of participating in tournaments (which I haven't done yet) is to meet and learn from the other programmers. I couldn't care less whether my program finishes first or last. If anything, finishing last would be preferable, because it means that I have more to learn from the other participants. "Bolide" was a new word to me, by the way. Thanks for the lesson! :-) >Why participate in a hardware competition, whereas programs should compete? The question of uniform hardware or not has been discussed many times in the past. In my opinion, both types of tournament have their merits. But for a tournament named "World Computer Chess Championship", I don't think it would make sense to play with uniform hardware. You cannot call something a "World Computer Chess Championship" if you don't allow entities like Hitech, Cray Blitz, Deep Blue or Hydra to participate. Tord
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