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Subject: Re: Objective proposal Falcon - Crafty

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 08:01:49 04/30/04

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On April 30, 2004 at 07:02:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 29, 2004 at 23:54:37, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On April 29, 2004 at 18:53:07, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On April 29, 2004 at 18:17:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>Of course i'll play many games to make it statistical significant in order to
>>>>try to proof that crafty is not having a chance against a modern engine like
>>>>Falcon. I have a dual K7 upstairs ready for such a match.
>>>>
>>>>Let me know whether you are interested in taking this proposal.
>>>>
>>>>Best regards,
>>>>Vincent
>>>
>>>Crafty played some "modern" engines at the last CCT and did quite well, in fact
>>>it won the tournament.
>>>
>>>Seeing how it never had a chance, Bob must have been using a modern engine like
>>>Diep.. oh that's right.. you never played..
>>>
>>>And as for your comments that Diep is top 3 in the world.. I think Amir, Stefan,
>>>Frans, Chrilly.... well really anyone will argue that point :)
>>>
>>>Why you make such rediculous comments is beyond me. Diep maybe a good engine,
>>>but at the World's I am picking it to finish no higher than 5th.
>>>
>>>Peter
>>
>>Diep is not as weak as it used to be.  It's not top-3 yet, but it's not an
>>impossibility either.
>
>It's definitely top 3.
>
>Did i ever do such a claim before?
>
>I remember i didn't even do any top3 claim before world champs
>1999,2000,2001,2002,2003.
>
>Now i do 1 claim and only a few kitchen-experts comment it to be not true :)

:-)  I'm commenting based upon known results.  Yoour own testing (I'm not saying
"basement testing" ;-) is not publicly available.  So I wait to see what happens
at the upcoming WCCC...

Dave



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