Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:32:54 05/26/99
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On May 27, 1999 at 01:50:09, Prakash Das wrote: >Reading this board (on an occasional basis) that Rebel will be using the fastest > PC available, I hopped over to the rebel site, and see Ed's site boasting of >using a Kyrotech. The 600 MHz AMD chip (after Kryoteching) sounds like a very fast single processor machine. It is possible that someone will come with a single-processor Alpha machine that is faster. > It occurred to me whether the various programs will be competing on their own >chosen hardware? Thus, one participant would bring a fast computer while another >will be using something else. This will surely hurt the guy on the slower >computer. > > Shouldn't an event like wmcc be held on even hardware for all? Otherwise, >what's the meaning of these results. Considering that the result will be used >heavily for marketing purposes, etc. Why should? The object is to see how well any machine can play chess, not just how well some particular machine can play chess. > On another note, for a user like me, it doesn't matter if Rebel (just an >example), finishes first using the fastest PC.. I never use the fastest >processor, so the results are bit meaningless for me as user. What's the point >of using the fastest processor etc, for the majority of end users? What would be the point of using a slower one? You can run your own tournament with "end-user" hardware if you like. > Even some older programs would do well, given the best hardware around. (I hope >Rebel is not going to loudly use it's results for marketing. It already showed >in the GM game it has big holes in positional understanding.) Every commercial team will use a good result for marketing. Provided that whatever claims they make are accurate, I don't see anything wrong with this either. Dave
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