Re:Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games
by ihaveajob on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:40AM
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To make it truly interesting (from the algorithmic point of view), these competitions should be limited to a standard machine with no connectivity. Otherwise it's an arms race.
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Re:Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games
by trycatch on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:05PM
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In TCEC all engines run on the same 2x 8-core Xeon. It's WCCC that allows engines to use arbitrary hardware -- e.g. on WCCC 2013 Jonny run on 2400-core cluster, but lost anyway to Junior that used 24-core Xeon.
Re:Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games
by saucetenuto on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:23PM
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Right now the chess produced is still more interesting than the algorithms themselves. Once we've hit diminishing returns there, it's likely that they'll realign as you've suggested.