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

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:46:44 08/19/05

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On August 18, 2005 at 15:32:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

It's no problem on windows either, *IF* the machine comes back :)

--
GCP



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