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Subject: Re: New list WCCC participants and Free Hardware

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 04:27:02 05/29/04

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On May 29, 2004 at 02:52:20, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

Yes.  Maybe I should have said "Any other" < 2%.

anthony



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