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Subject: Re: CCT Gambling!!

Author: Madhavan

Date: 15:06:09 02/11/05

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On February 11, 2005 at 17:51:30, Kolss wrote:

>On February 11, 2005 at 14:25:22, Madhavan wrote:
>
>>On February 11, 2005 at 14:19:15, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>
>>>On February 11, 2005 at 11:35:51, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>>
>>>>2. Who do you think has the best chance to win?
>>>>
>>>>3. Which country has the best chance of winning?
>>>
>>>I don't understand, why there are two questions. How does a country win? When
>>>Crafty wins, does it not imply, that USA wins? (This seems to be implied by your
>>>two questions). So, what are the exact rules for the "country prize"?
>>
>>i guess,suppose Crafty finishes first,Yace 2nd Zappa 3rd and SOS 4th
>>this implies USA defeats Germany
>>
>>
>>>>8. Which author will write the most lines to channel 64?
>>>
>>>Are Bob and Vincent watching?
>>
>>Enjoy a drama,you are very lucky :)
>>i'm going to buy a ticket :)
>>
>>>11. Which engine is most extremely seeded too low?
>>>
>>>Ikarus! Did anybody look at Ikarus results in Paderborn in recent years?
>>
>>yes,i agree.but no mention of hardware
>>do you have any idea?
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Yes I do... :-)
>
>Ikarus will play on a Pentium Centrino with 2.0 GHz and 768 MB RAM, slow hard
>disk drive.
>If this fails for some reason, we will have to move to an AMD Athlon 2800+ with
>1 GB RAM.

but,i guess AMD is much better than Centrino.correct me if i'm wrong
i have no idea which one is fatser

what about IPCCC,are you going to use the same hardware?
what was the hardware used in the last IPCCC?

>So this seems somewhat competitive, although certainly not at the very high end
>of what is in the tournament.

it's not very competetive,last IPCCC was very competetive but Ikarus did well
so no problem here at CCT

>Sorry for not making this known in time, but it could have become something
>worse as well. Seems all set now, though...

you need to verify if the program runs just fine on the server

>As for the seeding, I hope that Ikarus is ranked (way) too low, but we will see
>in the next two days. In such an event, (almost) anything can happen.
>Honestly, I do not care that much for the seeding anyway - in the end, you have
>to win the games...

i'd have given it 9th seeding,Chepla to 21 :)
any improvements in your test,how much elo improvement did you notice Ikarus of
last IPCCC to the current version,i hope there is big improvement


>Anyway, I wish everyone a great time!
>
>Best regards - Munjong.

who is Munstin?you attended the last IPCCC?you are going to operate this IPCCC?

anyway wish you the best


>>>Today is the first time, I really looked at the list of participants. Where are
>>>Warp, Monsoon, Postmodernist, (and many more, that come to mind)?
>>
>>sad...
>>Andrew plans to watch football match
>>
>>>Perhaps at some time, a tournament should be held at convenient times for
>>>NZL/AUS/...
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Dieter
>>All the best to you



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