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Subject: Re: Fantastic attack by Junior

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 18:05:20 07/06/04

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On July 06, 2004 at 19:17:22, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>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.

Agree 100%.  If you put in the 6 months + required to create a good parallel
search, you deserve the extra ply or two you get from a quad.

anthony



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