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Subject: Re: Fantastic attack by Junior

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 16:17:22 07/06/04

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On July 06, 2004 at 18:51:03, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On July 06, 2004 at 18:46:10, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On July 06, 2004 at 18:43:21, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>On July 06, 2004 at 18:36:43, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 06, 2004 at 18:15:53, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 06, 2004 at 18:06:06, Amir Ban wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On July 06, 2004 at 17:41:05, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Amir, congratulations for the nice game!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have not seen any info about the hardware beeing used by Junior at the current
>>>>>>>WCCC. Please tell it to the observers!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>With best regards,
>>>>>>>Dieter
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It's an HP Proliant server. This is all HP is allowing me to say :(
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Amir
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>And this is allowed in accordance with the ICGA rules?? - Mhhhh. Strange.
>>>>
>>>>Why not?  Since there is no limit on hardware someone could show up with the
>>>>worlds fastest computer and it makes no difference.  I would be interested in
>>>>the NPS Junior is hitting.  While analyzing the game Diep-Junior I saw Junior 8
>>>>hit over 1.6M nps on my XP2400.  Bob says he is hitting 8M minimum!
>>>>Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>So it would be possible that I am connected with the strongest computer in
>>>Japan, the second strongest was just bought by the university of
>>>BadenWürtemberg, and my fictive Rorybest is completely ok within the rules???
>>>Fine! Thanks.
>>
>>If you can write a chess program to take advantage of it's speed I would surely
>>love to see it play chess.
>
>Ok, thanks, although I don't know exactly what this means or what it takes, at
>least I can understand that there is no automatical stronger output. Anyway it'a
>also a gambler motif I can see here. It's the typical trick we can expect, when
>Amir begins to play out his different personality joker in the last rounds -
>then you can no longer "prepare" or hope that your counter-tuning has success.
>Ok, all from a lay's heart. :)


So?  More power to Amir.
Dan H.



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