Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:20:32 08/22/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 15:51:22, Engin Üstün wrote: >On August 22, 2005 at 15:31:29, Thomas Mayer wrote: > >>Hi Engin, >> >>On August 22, 2005 at 15:18:43, Engin Üstün wrote: >> >>>On August 22, 2005 at 11:57:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>Is it the largest margin (by percentage of points) ever for a WCCC or WMCCC >>>>event? >>> >>>zappa was played on 2 cpu dual core, Fruit play only on 1 cpu, clearly is Fruit >>>the Campion for me. >>> >>>very interesting is a match on same hardware Zappa vs Fruit. >> >>so well, then I chose the machin Anthony did use... see ! Nothing is changed, >>because Fruit so far just can use the single... so is Anthony to blaim because >>he made his program MP ? >> >>Just a comparison for those which support the same hardware idea: now what to do >>if one of those programs does not support opening book ? Must now everyone >>disable opening books ? Or how about pondering, tablebases etc. ? >> >>Of course it will be interesting to see them fighting against each other with >>single machines, but this was a world championship, everyone should bring the >>best he can. The 2 x 2 *2.2 Ghz wouldn't have helped Fruit, in fact it would >>have been even a bit slower on it, because each single processor has only 2.2 >>GHz. >> >>Anyway, Fruits performance was of course outstanding. Beaten several of those >>hardware monsters and end up as clear 2nd. But don't lower the achievements of >>Anthony, Zappa is without any doubt the deserved champ of that tournament. >> >>Greets, Thomas > >Hi Thomas, >you are right but, i mean only who have the money for very fast mashines is >clear better then other who can not spend so much for fast hardware? > >that is a question about a reach and poor programmers how engine is the best >one. > >clearly is better a tournament with all engines can MP ond same MP 4 core >mashines, with books, ponder and tablebases. >or all engines playing on same 1 cpu hardware with book, ponder and tablebases. > >compare hydra 16 core mashine vs fruit 1 core mashine is not fairly. > >that is also near if one engine have 4 GB hashtables and the other one have only >16 MB hash. For WCCC, the intent is cleary the strongest chess system that can be built at any cost (in the past, what was then supercomputers were entered).
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