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Subject: Re: Tactical Position - Fruit v Crafty (WCCC 2005)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:32:09 08/18/05

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On August 18, 2005 at 14:52:46, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 18, 2005 at 12:54:24, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>Well. now I understand VD:
>>
>>"Personally i give crafty 0%, simply because last 16 years the winner of
>>the world championship has been a program with the machine local at
>>the tournament site."
>>
>>Maybe the local machines get more whites. :D
>>
>>Conspiracy theorie regards
>>Andy
>
>Murphy dictates that the internet connection fails at some critical moment.
>
>Mine failed during the blitz tournament, so I had to play most games on my
>laptop. It got crushed :)
>
>It also failed at some critical moment in the game against Crafty...
>
>You feel safer if the machine is sitting next to you.
>
>--
>GCP


You running on windows or linux?  On linux, a comm failure should cause zero
problems except for a few lost minutes on the clock. And in the past, WCCC
events stopped the clocks when a communication failure happened...



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