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Subject: Re: King's performance in Leiden: one note

Author: Rex

Date: 23:58:23 05/18/03

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Yes but that luck is what gave CM9000 the title of Champion.


On May 19, 2003 at 02:50:16, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On May 19, 2003 at 02:39:04, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Even if there was only 9 rounds, King's performance was stunning when You look
>>at the hardware: King has only AMD XP2200 when Shredder has dual XEON 2800! That
>>dual must be at least 2x faster or maybe 3-4x with hypertreading?!
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Not to mention, but it was the same old version as last year with a minor
>improvement on the Opening Book. This is why a match of only 9 games instead of
>double round robin of 18 games doesn't impress me at all. Any of the engines
>that ended in the 1st to 8th position can win next year without any major
>improvement, it is just a matter of luck.
>
>Jorge



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