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Subject: Re: More info

Author: Chessfun

Date: 16:37:54 04/22/01

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On April 22, 2001 at 19:31:20, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On April 22, 2001 at 18:47:19, Mogens Larsen wrote:
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>>On April 22, 2001 at 17:48:24, Rajen Gupta wrote:
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>>>Well said amir: i think the main problem will be if shredder doesn't win through
>>>in the qualification-then its claim of being the world's champ will ring
>>>hollow-esp as this match will be
>>>1)a long series against the toughest possible opponents
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>>That is debatable.
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>>>2) absence of any cannon fodder
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>>Probably true, but it depends on the results.
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>>>3)tournament time controls
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>>Probably, has anything been published to that effect?
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>Enrique told me in email today that it is going to be: 40 moves in 90 minutes.
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>Which is fine with me.
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>>>4)strongest possible hardware
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>>That we don't know. It might just be a couple of duals.
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>You guessed. Enrique told me today that the qualification round will be run on
>two Dual P933 machines.
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>Isn't it funny? We all thought it would take place on 8-CPUs computers, isn't
>it?
>

I never assumed that for a minute, I doubt also others did.
http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?165025

Sarah.




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>>>5) programmers participation
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>>Only in an observational capacity AFAIK.
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>>>6)held in the open in public
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>>A hotel room apparently.
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>>>there wont be any exuse to fall back on!! i think the best strategy is not to
>>>take part, blame someone for the injustice, and still retain the claim of being
>>>the world champion!
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>>Even if Shredder participates and loses, it wouldn't change the WC status,
>>because the World Championship is an event. You can only say that Shredder
>>_probably_ isn't the strongest program given certain conditions, ie. the
>>conditions of the qualifier. You don't need an excuse to stay out of this one
>>IMO.
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>>Regards,
>>Mogens



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