hgm wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 7:39 am
The purpose of a computer chess championship is not to measure the strength of the engines
One caveat - it should be, at least as close as you can do in a tournament format.
If you have any other purposes - don't call it a championship. Call it a "friendly beer drinking showmatch" or anything, just don't call it championship.
hgm wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 7:39 am
The purpose of a computer chess championship is not to measure the strength of the engines
One caveat - it should be, at least as close as you can do in a tournament format.
If you have any other purposes - don't call it a championship. Call it a "friendly beer drinking showmatch" or anything, just don't call it championship.
if i tooked with my Tornado in a World Chess Champion Chip in Mainz 2006 in variant Chess960, i had a lot of fun there, also i played in Leiden at programmers tournament. My goal was never be the 1st place or something else, sure not be the last ones too.
I get a invitation for the WCCC and WCSC in Santiago too, if i want to play this time or the last one time, i will propably going to have fun instead to winning only.
They wrote "Plan to join us in Santiago de Compostela, Spain for a historic celebration of AI and games."
hgm wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 7:39 am
The purpose of a computer chess championship is not to measure the strength of the engines
One caveat - it should be, at least as close as you can do in a tournament format.
If you have any other purposes - don't call it a championship. Call it a "friendly beer drinking showmatch" or anything, just don't call it championship.
You don't get it. There are other aspects to compter chess than engines. Opening books count. Hardware counts.
hgm wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 7:39 am
The purpose of a computer chess championship is not to measure the strength of the engines
One caveat - it should be, at least as close as you can do in a tournament format.
If you have any other purposes - don't call it a championship. Call it a "friendly beer drinking showmatch" or anything, just don't call it championship.
You don't get it. There are other aspects to compter chess than engines. Opening books count. Hardware counts.
You can argue for opening books but you definitely can't argue for hardware, sorry.
We are not in 1960 where chess engines could run only on specific hardware and wouldn't run on anything else.
With current knowledge any AB engine can run at any sort of modern PC - from phones to supercomputers - and scale as well as any other engine more or less.
So comparing different engines with different hardware is completely pointless because all of them can use hardware almost equally as efficient.