Author: Mark Young
Date: 11:36:35 05/30/99
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On May 30, 1999 at 14:23:19, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >Hi Mel, > here it goes a fragment of a post by Dr. Hyatt you are constantly referring in >the thread about SSDF testing: > >---------------------------------------------- >On May 27, 1999 at 15:51:59, Prakash Das wrote: > >>Well, I still don't understand the point of this "world championship" then. Sure >>, you can call it "hey, if nothing it will be fun", a "test of systems", etc. >>But what are exactly is this exercise trying to prove? If program A on hardware >>B, beats program D on hardware E - does that say much about A compared to B? >>This belies the principles of science - you have to have a uniform platform >>for all participants to make any kind of judgement. > > >I don't understand what you don't understand. This is an "open" competition. >Anything is allowed. Any sort of hardware and software combination that can >play chess. It has _always_ been that way. It will always be that way. The >question being asked is "what is the strongest electronic chessplayer on the >planet?" Not "what is the strongest program?" Or "Who is best on equal >hardware?" or anything else... > >---------------------------------------------- > > As you can see, you were attributing to Dr. Hyatt words by Prakash Das. >José. As Homer Simpson would say in Mels place....DOH!!
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