Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 08:50:45 03/22/99
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On March 22, 1999 at 11:34:11, Christophe Theron wrote: >It's a good question. > >Using a multiprocessor system prevents you from winning the "Micro" title. And >in this case you have to fight with some big/fast iron. > >I can imagine that non-commercial programmers want to use the most powerful >system and enter the championship with a multiprocessor system, but commercial >programmers will certainly hesitate before giving up the possibility to win the >"Best Micro Program" title. > >Chess Tiger will run on a single processor PC. I went to the 1995 WCCC and got creamed by Zugzwang, Hitech, and Fritz. I also got to do Hong Kong for a week and meet the Dark Thought guys, David Kittinger, Mathias Feist, Amir Ban, and Frans Morsch. My program finished 14th. When I found out about the 1999 WCCC I figured I would take some random hardware (like my Alpha, which is obsolete now -- it is slower than a P2/450 by a significant margin) and go have fun. But I started thinking about parallel search and determined that I could actually get it done before the event. So I figured, hey, time to be parallel, it's not like the typical machine will have one processor in ten years. I spent some time trying to con a parallel machine out of some company, and I began work on parallel search (on a single processor machine, which is no fun). After perhaps two months of this, suddenly here is an announcement that there will be a micro event as well. It wasn't much of a choice for me, I'm going to use the biggest thing I can line up. This only happens once every three years, might as well go with what will play the best chess. bruce
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