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Subject: Re: Here is your chance Amir. Explain to me why I should play him.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:43:31 07/10/05

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On July 11, 2005 at 00:58:40, Madhavan wrote:

>On July 11, 2005 at 00:41:04, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On July 11, 2005 at 00:07:23, Madhavan wrote:
>>
>>>On July 10, 2005 at 23:55:04, Zappa wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 10, 2005 at 22:38:26, Amir wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 10, 2005 at 21:40:28, Pablo Ignacio Restrepo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Anthony.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have been very busy the last days.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For that reason I have not answer your post, "where you have insulted to me
>>>>>>before."
>>>>>
>>>>>I agree. Anthony insults were pathetic. He was arrogant, condescending, and even
>>>>>though he won't admit it, scared ("I am too busy to play you," says the
>>>>>programmer). He called himself "World champion boxer" ... this coming from an
>>>>>engine listed somewhere around the bottom on the rating list.
>>>>
>>>>When running on a quad opteron, I believe Zappa is one of the top engines in the
>>>>world.  It won CCT7 clear first (among the games a nice win over Fruit), scored
>>>>3.0 / 4.0 against a 2650 rated GM, tied for first in CCT6 (sadly I lost on
>>>>tiebreaks :()  It is even doing pretty well in WBEC and that is in 32bit mode
>>>>with a random book.  In my test games it does pretty well against Fritz and
>>>>Shredder.  If you disagree, well that is your priviledge.  We will know who was
>>>>right and who was wrong after the WCCC in August.
>>>>
>>>>I have seen nothing from you about why I should give Pablo a match, only that "I
>>>>am scared" - and I suspect that was you trying your best to sink my match with
>>>>Ehlvest, since Pablo claims he didn't do it. So, I will give you a chance:
>>>
>>>>Please tell me why I should play Pablo Restrepo in a match.
>>>
>>>Since Pablo drew 2 games against Hydra,You should also challenge him,You don't
>>>have to operate your program manually,such a match can be automated.There you
>>>claim "Pablo can get 3 draws with Zappa assuming he got 2 draws versus Hydra"
>>>Its possible that Pablo can win atleast 9 games out of 10 against an amateur
>>>program.
>>
>>In games with increasement he cannot win on time(the chessbase gui is buggy but
>>programs can play easily more than 300 moves not in the chessbase gui)
>
>I don't care what you have about Chessbase GUI,But you should know that there
>are programmers like Amir,Frans Morsch and many use Chessbase even in WCC
>
>If you say so,Do you have any WCCC games containing more than 300 moves?since
>you have been in 1 WCCC,you should know the games of all WCCC
>s,did you find such a very very long games supposed to be taking ages.
>
>>>the question to you is:Why don't you let Pablo play Zappa?
>>>
>>>Don't forget that Hydra will also be there,It'sretty clear that Hydra software
>>>is better than the public Zappa,Hardware much better than your current hardware.
>>
>>comparing between public zappa and private hydra is not interesting and if we
>>talk about private versions of both things then it is not clear for me if hydra
>>is better than zappa.
>
>It's not debatable,It's pretty clear!that hydra is better than Zappa,see any
>tournament.public Zappa can't even defeat Chessmaster,Shredder.you can only
>expect about 30 elo difference of the private to public version.

No

The difference can be also higher than 100 elo.
I simply do not know.



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