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Subject: Re: How many of you predicted Fritz, Shredder and Nimzo to win?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:33:30 08/24/00

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On August 24, 2000 at 22:24:51, Charles Milton Ling wrote:

>On August 24, 2000 at 18:44:00, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>When Chessbase asked to place the winning programs in order: how many of you
>>picked these three programs in any order to be the winner?.  My selection was
>>Fritz Shredder and Chess Tiger in that order. I hope that Chess Tiger continue
>>to play good opening moves for the next two games.
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>I think (I am not *completely* sure) I had 1) Fritz 2) Shredder 3) Crafty.  That
>bet is not looking too healthy right now.  It is probably because I often watch
>Crafty destroy humans on ICC; that makes me tend to forget that other programs
>might indeed be optimized for play against their own kind.
>
>Charley

This was exactly my guess but there was another reason.

I thought that Crafty is going to use a good alpha with 1M nodes per seconds
when I guessed Crafty number 3 and Crafty did not use it.

Uri



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