Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:03:04 06/17/05
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On June 17, 2005 at 18:53:56, Sune Fischer wrote: >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 that in 1999 when Shredder 1 cpu came first and Ferret,Junior,Fritz failed inspite of having more processors. see http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/99wc$tix.htm Note only that the winners of future events are also better with a single cpu so results do not prove that speed is a factor. If you can show me that superior engines with one cpu failed to win championships because they did not support more than one cpu that it will be more convincing. I do not claim that speed is not an important factor but only that results of tournaments do not prove it. Uri
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