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David Doshay wrote: > The problem with a "closed" system where the tournament director > controls both of the machines is that it precludes programs like mine, > SlugGo, that intrinsically use multiple CPUs and run on Macs rather > than Windows or Linux boxes. > > > Cheers, > David Yes, and that's an issue that is dear to my heart since I was the principle developer of a massively parallel chess program and we could not submit our program to any agency and some tournaments were even closed to us. The principle use of such agencies is to provide ratings for purchasers of chess programs that run on windows computers. That's enough right there to turn my stomach! I don't know if any of these agencies even allow linux or mac programs, I haven't really checked to find out. But they certainly wouldn't allow programs running on hardware like yours. However, in principle any hardware could be allowed if you supplied it for them - even on a temporary borrow basis. Alas, I don't think computer go is ready for this yet. If/when programs get really strong and the competition and sales of go programs turns into a big industry with competition from dozens of programs, such a thing would probably happen. - - Don -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDoPbDsOllbwnSikRAnqeAJ4xEm8bMSAWsI1OnvrUQVbsOcgNIACgvwpu doS4EFOYx663mH3KiKIVktA= =tir4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
