Re: [computer-go] [Fwd: ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona]

2009-01-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
terry mcintyre wrote: I notice that the 2008 icga chess tournament is limited to 8 cores. David Levy's justification seems curious to me. He mentions that an early microcomputer held its own against a mighty mainframe, and that many top chess programs run on PCs, but he wishes to discourage

[computer-go] [Fwd: ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona]

2009-01-09 Thread Jacques Basaldúa
Good news! I am very happy the ICGA has chosen Pamplona. Other destinations (e.g. Beijing) are more attractive, but way out of my reach. I can travel to Pamplona easily, but cannot find the details. The website at http://www.icga.org/ is not updated and the attached .eml file contains 2 .pdf

Re: [computer-go] [Fwd: ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona]

2009-01-09 Thread Rémi Coulom
Jacques Basaldúa wrote: Can someone place the .pdfs somewhere for download? Thanks. They are in the Game Programming Forum: http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15t=67 Rémi ___ computer-go mailing list

Re: [computer-go] [Fwd: ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona]

2009-01-09 Thread terry mcintyre
I notice that the 2008 icga chess tournament is limited to 8 cores. David Levy's justification seems curious to me. He mentions that an early microcomputer held its own against a mighty mainframe, and that many top chess programs run on PCs, but he wishes to discourage being able to buy the

Re: [computer-go] [Fwd: ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona]

2009-01-09 Thread Don Dailey
Had rules like this been in affect in earlier years, where you limit participants to commodity hardware, we would have never seen Cray Blitz, Deep Blue, Bebe, Belle and others that were a very important part of computer chess history. This comes down to whether you are trying to turn this into