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From: "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vincent Diepeveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Geoff Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jim Lux"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <beowulf@beowulf.org>; "Angel Dimitrov"
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Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] commercial clusters
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
Actually with respect to chess, it is not overblown,
there is 1 billion people on this planet that can play chess and the
average IQ of a chessplayer
is significantly better than the world wide IQ (you can ask yourself
whether this is caused by
chess, or whether it is the people who choose to play chess that are
clever).
You have to be very careful to differentiate between "can" play chess,
as in know or at some point in their life knew the rules of chess, "do"
play chess as in have played at least one game of chess in (say) the
last three months and "are obsessed" with playing chess (as in their
last game was less than 24 hours ago no matter when you ask them.
Nearly everyone who has an university degree or is high in government,
can play chess.
Logically that this includes many persons with a lot of money.
At this point, I'm guessing that a desktop computer with an
over-the-counter or open source chess program (configured to play its
best game) can beat 99% of that billion handily and consistently. Maybe
The basic flaw i see in some assumptions taken here is that you as a human
want
to do a running contest with a car.
In reality that isn't the case.
People just want to see whose car is better, not whether they can outrun the
car.
Additional they want to analyze their own running (most important feature)
in the most objective manner possible, or they want to compete with it in a
300 KM/h contest.
To look like a winner, people are prepared to pay any price.
Vincent
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