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Subject: Re: The marvelous showing of GnuChess at CCT3

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:44:16 05/28/01

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On May 28, 2001 at 18:43:07, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On May 28, 2001 at 17:49:35, Chris King wrote:
>
>>Since throwing it's hat in with the "Evil Empire" Shredder has gone from winning
>>world championships to finishing 13th (behind Gnuchess), in a tournament where
>>some of the top programs were not even participating.
>>Spooky or what!
>
>That thought crossed my mind as well. The end of a winning streak when joining
>the dark side of the force. It would be cool if the moves were announced by
>James Earl Jones with Shredder 5.32. Not that Karpov is bad, he's just a tad on
>the slow side. I'm checkmated before he's finished saying: "(silence for a
>while) Pawn! c7 c5".

With 5 games, any program has a very serious chance to win, give that it is
within 100 ELO.



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