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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