Author: James Swafford
Date: 06:07:14 05/29/04
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On May 29, 2004 at 07:27:02, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >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%. > That works. :) I don't agree, but it works... -- James >anthony
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