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Subject: Re: Paderborn Championship

Author: syed

Date: 18:41:03 09/08/99

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It would be better if they had equal requirements. Wouldn't it be giving an
unfair advantage to a program utilizing 4 processors and extra memory against
one that runs on a single-processor?

Arshad Syed

On September 08, 1999 at 21:07:11, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 08, 1999 at 21:02:58, syed wrote:
>
>>I have a few questions regarding the recently concluded World Computer Chess
>>Championship in Paderborn:
>>
>>1.) Is it required that all programs be participating on equal hardware, in
>>terms of processor/s, RAM etc?
>No.
>
>>2.) Do PC based programs like Junior have to be modified to deal with programs
>>like Dark Thought, CilkChess which employ multi-threading, multi-processing etc?
>>Or are they already equipped to handle this?
>The vendors can if they want to.  The winner of the WCCC this year was Shredder,
>a PC program.



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