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Subject: Re: CCT Gambling!!

Author: Kolss

Date: 15:19:54 02/11/05

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On February 11, 2005 at 18:06:09, Madhavan wrote:

>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

No, my Centrino 2.0 is clearly faster than the A2800+.

>what about IPCCC,are you going to use the same hardware?

As it looks, yes.

>what was the hardware used in the last IPCCC?

I don't remember exactly, I think it actually was the Athlon 2800+...

>>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

It does. :-)

>>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

There has been some improvement (> 0), though nothing spectacular (<< 200
Elo...). Anyway, we play with an experimental version.

>>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?

Muntsin is my brother and co-author of Ikarus (or am I the co-author?!). I will
operate during the IPCCC, but Muntsin will probably show up during the weekend.

>anyway wish you the best

Thanks!

Best regards - Munjong.



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