Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 15:39:41 12/14/03
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On December 14, 2003 at 17:18:09, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 14, 2003 at 16:44:59, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>On December 13, 2003 at 19:15:00, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> >>>On December 13, 2003 at 19:02:23, Sune Fischer wrote: >>> >>>>On December 13, 2003 at 18:29:42, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 13, 2003 at 18:12:17, Russell Reagan wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On December 13, 2003 at 05:31:25, Amir Ban wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Well, if without Chessbase engines you'll have a better event and make progress, >>>>>>>I won't stand in your way. >>>>>> >>>>>>Your statement sounds like the people who tried to hold on to DOS too long when >>>>>>Windows (and other multitasking operating systems) were clearly the future. >>>>>>"Well, if without real mode you'll have better programs and make progress, I >>>>>>won't stand in your way." You don't hear too many of those people these days. Is >>>>>>Ed Schröder the only one left? :) Clearly, multiuser and multitasking operating >>>>>>systems are progress over DOS. >>>>>> >>>>>>45 participants is a heck of a lot more than 14. If there are 40 participants >>>>>>instead, that's still a heck of a lot more than 14, with plenty of strong >>>>>>competition. If we had this kind of participation along with the Chessbase >>>>>>engines, that would be great, but I'll take 40+ participants with no Chessbase >>>>>>participants over 14 including Chessbase participants. >>>>> >>>>>What was the average rating in Graz? What is the average rating in CCT? >>>> >>>>By this logic the tournament would have been even better with only Shredder, >>>>Junior and Fritz. >>>>The others just dragged down the rating, obviously. >>> >>>OK, let me put it this way: how many top programs participated in Graz? How many >>>will participate in CCT? >>> >>>Having a chess championship without Junior/Fritz/Shredder is like having a >>>football worldcup without Brazil, Italy, Germany, England... (and if like CCT >>>you don't have any "drug tests", then Argentina will easily win, thanks to >>>Maradona :) >>> >>> >>>> >>>>>If quantity is the only important factor for you, then you can take 100 free >>>>>winboard engines, run a tournament on your computer, and crown the winner with >>>>>the world champion title. >>>> >>>>Quantity is important, quantity means support, interest and recognition. >>>> >>>>Where was Tiger, where was Rebel, Ruffian, SmarThink, Crafty, Yace... in your >>>>little shootout? >>> >>>Had they thought they had any chance to win the championship, they would have >>>shown up. >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>>Could it be they didn't find it worth the trouble, or were they just too busy >>>>preparing for CCT6? >>>> >>>>-S. >> >> >>Crafty is _open source_. If Bob has a good idea, we all immediately copy it. >>That makes it sorta hard to win championships :) >> >>anthony > >How many programmers understand crafty in order to copy every good idea in it? > >You can talk only about yourself and not about "we all". > >I believe that most programmers do not understand a lot of crafty(otherwise most >free programs could be better than Crafty). > >Uri Step 1 to understand the crafty source: _everything_ is a macro :) anthony
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