Author: David Mitchell
Date: 16:53:19 08/03/05
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On August 03, 2005 at 16:30:29, Engin Üstün wrote: >ok, but first priority is to write better chess engines and then the second is >the hardware who this program is running. > >In the last computer tournaments and others (padaborn, leiden etc.) who was >playing mishmash of hardwares is not interesting, because simple they was on >different hardwares. >that is the reason why i don't playing in this tournaments. > >To compare engines is to playing on same equal hardwares ! > >Not PC against moster hardware, that's not fair. Gentle Engin, Please do consider that you are replying to the former author of CRAY BLITZ, which ran on, (shockingly), a CRAY supercomputer!! And of course, won the WCCC. Thanks for the giggles, though. What you think is "fair" unfortunately, is also lacking in interest, and therefore, in sponsors, and therefore, has been squashed flat by general marketing forces. As long as everyone knows the rules, and abides by them, it's hard to say that a better hardware + software combo, is somehow "unfair". There would never have been a Belle, Cray Blitz, Deep Thought, Deep Blue, SMP versions of Crafty, Deep Sjeng, Shredder, Fritz, or Hydra, without those "unfair" rules. Just think about the milestones and generated publicity in CC that have been stimulated by the competitions of all the above programs, running on "unequal" hardware. Where would we be today, without all that? Dave
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