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Subject: Re: Paderborn Championship

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:04:37 09/08/99

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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.  You can run on any hardware you want, microcomputer, mainframe,
super-computer, or even custom-designed chess hardware.

>
>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?

I don't understand your question.  If you mean "does it have to be modified
to use parallel machines?" then yes.  Otherwise, it simply has to play against
programs that are substantially faster.




>
>Thanks,
>Arshad F. Syed



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