2009 ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championships

[krazyken]

I am available to be an operator, if you don't mind running your engine on 8 core Mac OS X. (or win32 via wine)

[CRoberson]

The web pages are up. We currently have 6 registered programs.
The registration procedure can be found on the web site:

http://www.taccl.org/ACCAWCRCC/2009ACCAWCRCC/WCRCC.html

[Harvey Williamson]

http://www.taccl.org/ACCAWCRCC/2009ACCA ... CPart.html

I see the list pretty good so far. Rybka on its cluster and the rest on pretty average hardware. If i was Vas i would enter on bog standard hardware and probably win what is the point of the world champion winning on 52 cores?

[krazyken]

http://www.taccl.org/ACCAWCRCC/2009ACCA ... CPart.html

I see the list pretty good so far. Rybka on its cluster and the rest on pretty average hardware. If i was Vas i would enter on bog standard hardware and probably win what is the point of the world champion winning on 52 cores?

Funny! Personally I would do everything I could to guarantee victory. It's kind of chumpy to play in a championship and and not try to win. Of course if daring your opponents to play at disadvantage is what you do to try to win, so be it.

[Harvey Williamson]

http://www.taccl.org/ACCAWCRCC/2009ACCA ... CPart.html

I see the list pretty good so far. Rybka on its cluster and the rest on pretty average hardware. If i was Vas i would enter on bog standard hardware and probably win what is the point of the world champion winning on 52 cores?

Funny! Personally I would do everything I could to guarantee victory. It's kind of chumpy to play in a championship and and not try to win. Of course if daring your opponents to play at disadvantage is what you do to try to win, so be it.

But surely if Rybka wins on similar hardware to the rest there is no argument - if it wins on 52 cores who cares?! if the engine that came 2nd had <=8?

[krazyken]

http://www.taccl.org/ACCAWCRCC/2009ACCA ... CPart.html

I see the list pretty good so far. Rybka on its cluster and the rest on pretty average hardware. If i was Vas i would enter on bog standard hardware and probably win what is the point of the world champion winning on 52 cores?

Funny! Personally I would do everything I could to guarantee victory. It's kind of chumpy to play in a championship and and not try to win. Of course if daring your opponents to play at disadvantage is what you do to try to win, so be it.

But surely if Rybka wins on similar hardware to the rest there is no argument - if it wins on 52 cores who cares?! if the engine that came 2nd had <=8?

There will probably be other competitiors on Clusters, like if Sjeng enters. Championship chess programs can not continue to try to live in the past on hardware that I bought years ago. They need to be ready to take advantage and be a good investment for the next computer people will buy. People are buying computers with more than 8 cores this year.

[Harvey Williamson]

http://www.taccl.org/ACCAWCRCC/2009ACCA ... CPart.html

I see the list pretty good so far. Rybka on its cluster and the rest on pretty average hardware. If i was Vas i would enter on bog standard hardware and probably win what is the point of the world champion winning on 52 cores?

Funny! Personally I would do everything I could to guarantee victory. It's kind of chumpy to play in a championship and and not try to win. Of course if daring your opponents to play at disadvantage is what you do to try to win, so be it.

But surely if Rybka wins on similar hardware to the rest there is no argument - if it wins on 52 cores who cares?! if the engine that came 2nd had <=8?

There will probably be other competitiors on Clusters, like if Sjeng enters. Championship chess programs can not continue to try to live in the past on hardware that I bought years ago. They need to be ready to take advantage and be a good investment for the next computer people will buy. People are buying computers with more than 8 cores this year.

Who is buying a Cluster and who has a program that can run on 1? When they are common, and simple to install and run by anyone who has more than 1 machine, of course they should be allowed. I would love to see the support emails when someone 1st releases a Cluster program.

[krazyken]

http://www.taccl.org/ACCAWCRCC/2009ACCA ... CPart.html

I see the list pretty good so far. Rybka on its cluster and the rest on pretty average hardware. If i was Vas i would enter on bog standard hardware and probably win what is the point of the world champion winning on 52 cores?

Funny! Personally I would do everything I could to guarantee victory. It's kind of chumpy to play in a championship and and not try to win. Of course if daring your opponents to play at disadvantage is what you do to try to win, so be it.

But surely if Rybka wins on similar hardware to the rest there is no argument - if it wins on 52 cores who cares?! if the engine that came 2nd had <=8?

There will probably be other competitiors on Clusters, like if Sjeng enters. Championship chess programs can not continue to try to live in the past on hardware that I bought years ago. They need to be ready to take advantage and be a good investment for the next computer people will buy. People are buying computers with more than 8 cores this year.

Who is buying a Cluster and who has a program that can run on 1? When they are common of course they should be allowed. I would love to see the support emails when someone 1st releases a Cluster program.

When I buy a new computer my old ones don't magically vanish. I have a cluster right now it has 19 cores when I buy my next computer with 16-cores, I'll be up to 35. Yes I'll admit clusters aren't for people like you, but they are a reality and won't go away. Just because you can't use a cluster is no reason to say that nobody else can either.

[Harvey Williamson]

http://www.taccl.org/ACCAWCRCC/2009ACCA ... CPart.html

I see the list pretty good so far. Rybka on its cluster and the rest on pretty average hardware. If i was Vas i would enter on bog standard hardware and probably win what is the point of the world champion winning on 52 cores?

Funny! Personally I would do everything I could to guarantee victory. It's kind of chumpy to play in a championship and and not try to win. Of course if daring your opponents to play at disadvantage is what you do to try to win, so be it.

But surely if Rybka wins on similar hardware to the rest there is no argument - if it wins on 52 cores who cares?! if the engine that came 2nd had <=8?

There will probably be other competitiors on Clusters, like if Sjeng enters. Championship chess programs can not continue to try to live in the past on hardware that I bought years ago. They need to be ready to take advantage and be a good investment for the next computer people will buy. People are buying computers with more than 8 cores this year.

Who is buying a Cluster and who has a program that can run on 1? When they are common of course they should be allowed. I would love to see the support emails when someone 1st releases a Cluster program.

When I buy a new computer my old ones don't magically vanish. I have a cluster right now it has 19 cores when I buy my next computer with 16-cores, I'll be up to 35. Yes I'll admit clusters aren't for people like you, but they are a reality and won't go away. Just because you can't use a cluster is no reason to say that nobody else can either.

If someone releases a cluster program I will buy and run it. My point is the same I would love to see the support emails when someone does. You should see some of the emails we get now from customers - needing sometimes basic windows support which we are happy to give.

If you have a working Cluster program why not release it lets see how many get it to run without support.

[Engin]

I'll be away that weekend (and part of the next). If someone wants to operate Arasan they can. Otherwise, if it's held then, I'll have to skip.

--Jon

i away too... and need any to operate Tornado on ICC... otherwise i cant play, because i am in holydays