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Subject: Re: New list WCCC participants and Free Hardware

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:52:20 05/28/04

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On May 28, 2004 at 21:43:30, James Swafford wrote:

>On May 28, 2004 at 21:41:55, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>On May 28, 2004 at 20:36:21, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>
>>>On May 28, 2004 at 15:34:13, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 28, 2004 at 13:25:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 28, 2004 at 13:02:56, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On May 28, 2004 at 12:44:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On May 28, 2004 at 12:29:01, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On May 28, 2004 at 10:22:23, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On May 28, 2004 at 08:45:35, Mark Winands wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Author                   Program           Country
>>>>>>>>>>A. Ban and S. Bushinsky  Junior            Israel
>>>>>>>>>>U. Blass                 Movei             Israel
>>>>>>>>>>R. Coulom                The Crazy Bishop  France
>>>>>>>>>>O. David Tabibi          Falcon            Israel
>>>>>>>>>>V. Diepeveen             Diep              Netherlands
>>>>>>>>>>G.B.Garcia               FIBChess          Spain
>>>>>>>>>>R. Huber                 ParSOS            Germany
>>>>>>>>>>R. Hyatt                 Crafty            USA
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I need to start paying better attention I guess.  What the hell is this?!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Oh my..I just got goose bumps.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I guess we know the answer to Vincent's challenge to either "put up or shut
>>>>>>>>up"...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>If Robert got anything like a 4 way or 8 way manhine, I think we might hear
>>>>>>>>something like "Crafty has won the WCCC 2004!".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Peter
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Crafty will run on at least 4 X 2.4ghz opterons.  Perhaps more.  I'll post
>>>>>>>details as they are worked out, but the 4-way is set now, as a worst-case...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Who is operating Crafty?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Should pull around 8M nps out of book.
>>>>>
>>>>>As a lower bound.  If you check the CCT6 logs, it reached 11-12M many times, and
>>>>>in some endings it broke 16M...
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The funny thing is, no one ever takes Crafty seriously, but I bet I know at
>>>>>>least 2 book-makers who are probably making anti-Crafty books right now.  LOL
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This is gonna be neat...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>It'll be competitive.  Winning is another matter.  Particularly since I have
>>>>>"zero percent chance of winning"...
>>>>>
>>>>>:)
>>>>
>>>>I am sorry to state this, but theorically you have chances and pratically you do
>>>>not.
>>>>Unless your hardware would be at least 10 times faster than Shredder, Junior and
>>>>Fritz. In this case you would have some chances even if not many.
>>>>
>>>>I know many will not like this, including yourself, but this is what I believe
>>>>and I am not afraid of saying what I think, like it or not.
>>>>
>>>>I am not willing to explain why, so people can criticize as much as they want,
>>>>but I will not change my mind.
>>>>
>>>>To win CCT or another tournament is something else as these are not considered
>>>>of the same importance by the commercial programs.
>>>>
>>>>Sandro
>>>
>>>Of course Crafty has a chance to win.  Heck, DanChess might walk away with the
>>>title :)  Its only 13 games.  I look at worldchamps like this:
>>>
>>>Shredder     40%
>>>Fritz        30%
>>>Junior       20%
>>>All others:  <2%
>>>
>>
>>So there is a >= 8% chance no one will win? :)
>
>Gah... > 8%.

Not necessary.

Maybe the meaning is that the last 10% are divided between 10 programs when
every one of them has 1%.

Uri



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