Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:51:58 10/21/97
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I'm not writing this in exactly the right place, but I can't continue looking around for the right place, since it took me a half hour to get this one post up, so I can respond to it. Unfortunately, it was the wrong post, so I had to snip everything. The contention has been made that Bob and I are destroying this event by bringing powerful hardware. More exactly, we are driving away commercial programmers who either can't afford or can't arrange hot machines. The specific example is Hiarcs, but MChess is also mentioned. The supplied hardware at the '95 Paderborn WMCCC was a 120 mhz P5, and Hiarcs and MChess brought 133 mhz P5's. This is not that big a deal, but the 133 mhz P5 was the best you could get at that time, and the supplied 120 mhz machine didn't have a lot of extras on it. At the previous WMCCC, Munich '93, Hiarcs brought a Sparc of some sort and MChess was on a 60mhz P5. I have no idea how fast that Sparc was (it is describe only as "very fast" in the ICCAJ), but he won the event. I expect that both of these machines were a lot better than the supplied machines, which were 486/66's. On the inside back cover of the Jun '97 issue of "Chess Monthly" is a picture of Hiarcs' box, I presume. On the box cover it says "World Champion Program". If it also says "Sparc", I don't see it. In both events, several others brought nice machines, usually professionals, but also the occasional amateur (XXXX in '95). There have also been Alphas in both of those events, a 150 mhz alpha in the '93 event (The King, finished second), and a 275 mhz Alpha in the '95 event (Dark Thought, finished 7th on Bukholz points). I didn't go back any further than this, but I'm sure the articles are full of interesting things. bruce
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