Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 04:55:17 05/27/99
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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. > > 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. > the short answer is "no". Because the purpose of the WCCC is to find the best program/computer player in the world. It was _never_ an 'equal platform chess event'. Otherwise Chess 4.x, Belle, Cray Blitz, deep thought, etc would _never_ have been able to compete. Don Beal used to host a uniform platform chess tournament, but he hasn't done it in several years now. > 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? > > 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.) Rebel is by _no_ means the fastest machine there. There will be at _least_ two quad xeon boxes, plus a cluster of a couple of hundred pentium machines, plus a Cray T3 with a couple of hundred alpha processors, etc. The K6/600 is a toy when you consider those machines...
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