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Subject: Re: What happened to the FastCrafty vs SlowJunior test match? (NT)

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 11:19:27 12/08/03

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On December 08, 2003 at 13:52:27, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>On December 08, 2003 at 11:35:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 08, 2003 at 11:07:25, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>
>>>On December 08, 2003 at 10:56:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 08, 2003 at 10:42:01, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 08, 2003 at 01:35:02, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On December 08, 2003 at 01:24:46, Steve Lim wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>He's on vacation.  Won't be anymore games for like another week.
>>>>>
>>>>>What's the result so far? (and what exactly was the time control?)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The first test-match was at roughly 10:1 time odds.  I don't remember
>>>>the draws (I think 5) but the win/lose score is 4:2 so far in Crafty's
>>>>favor, if I didn't miss a result.
>>>
>>>1 minute is just a pure tactical combat. A fair 10 to 1 time control would be
>>>100 minutes to 10 minutes, or even 50 minutes to 5 minutes...
>>
>>
>>The games are 40 moves in 2 hours.  DJ is simply running on a machine 10x
>>slower.
>
>OK. Thanks for the info. With that regard, 4:2 for Crafty is very impressive.
>Had I had money on the bet, I would be on the losing side now.

My only prediction was that there would be at least 12 games played, and a ton
of draws.  I was right!  :)

>BTW, is Junior using its tournament book?

Yes it is.  And FYI, the TC is actually 2h + 10s/move, and it's a race to 6
wins.

>Without its own book, Junior seems to be far weaker. For example, before Graz I
>conducted 6 matches of 1 hour per game between Falcon and Junior 8, using
>fritz8.ctg for both sides. The result was 4.5 - 1.5 for Falcon.



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