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Subject: Re: ICGA WCCC in Reykjavik: Playing via proxy

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 12:59:00 05/03/05

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On May 03, 2005 at 12:39:12, Steven Edwards wrote:

>The General Rules of the 2005 ICGA WCCC seem to allow remote participation via
>the Internet (at twice the entry fee) with the organizers providing an operator.
> For an amateur entrant, that's 50 Euro plus a membership in the ICGA (I let
>mine lapse a few years ago).
>
>Symbolic's toolkit is not strong enough on my available hardware to have much
>chance to place in the upper half of the field, although it would be interesting
>to see some of the games.


I'd be willing to bet it would be competitive on the latest Mac hardware.  Their
might even be volunteers willing to offer the use of their 64-bit hardware if
you decided to enter the competition.

It might be worth looking into.  Someone here might be willing to build the
toolkit on 64-bit Mac and run some benchmarks, or even do some runs on ICC.



>It may very well be a different story for the next
>WCCC in 2008 as surely (!) the cognitive search will be completed by then.
>
>http://www.chessclub.com/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?handle=Symbolic



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