Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:08:13 09/12/99
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On September 12, 1999 at 08:17:16, Leon Stancliff wrote: >I wish to thank Robert Hyatt and all of the others who have responded to my >original question. I now realize that Hyatt cannot set up his own program to >play on equal hardware with the programs such as Hiarcs 7, Nimzo 99 and Fritz. > > It can be done, but as I said before, I am not sure it is 'fair' if you use the traditional sense of the word. IE if you use a one-cpu machine, then you eliminate about 1 year's worth of work I did because the SMP search took quite a while to get right (and it is _still_ being modified/improved today.) If you use a 4 cpu machine, then it could be considered unfair to the other programs that can't use the hardware while crafty can... a 'catch-22'... > >I will simply have to be satisfied with what takes place between my Hiarcs on >the MacIntosh versus the crafty clones such as Data and Singacrafty. I still >would like to see another Harvard Cup. I feel that the reason we do not have one >is that the top USA players realize the computers could now play even or perhaps >better than our top ten. The computers scored 38% in the last one. They could >certainly do better today!
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