Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 15:53:56 06/17/05
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On June 17, 2005 at 08:25:01, Christopher Conkie wrote: >The WCCC will show no insight whatsoever for chess engines abilities while these >anomalies exist. Yes but short tournament show little to no insight anyway due to the statistical uncertainties. Think of it as a sport rather than science. There are however numerous basement tournaments done, so I see no faul in a single sports tournament here or there for those that enjoy that. >The championships are in effect.....meaningless. > >It is a very piric victory to be declared World Champion on the basis of having >the best hardware and not the best chess engine. Anyone who understands anything about computer chess knows speed is a factor, e.g. when was the last time a single cpu engine won a major tournament? I think the problem is not so much fairness though, the problem is that these "details" fade quickly; Next week you'll be reading on chessbase how commercial engine X totally outsearched little hobby engine Y. You'll have to dig deep seven links away to figure out that commercial engine X actually had a 4x speed advantage! It's very misleading IMO, but whether it is deliberate deception or just plain ignorance of the journalists I can't say. So are they better because they use quads, or can they use quads because they are better? I would hold it's a bit of both. -S.
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