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Subject: midlifecrisis

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 00:39:06 08/22/05

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i have shortened the whole text a litte. and when i read this,
it looks like a midlife crisis to me.

May I quote Stefan Meyer-Kahlen:

"With 1,5 points from 2 rounds, Shredder looks very promising in the tournament,
especially as my previous opponents are certainly among the
wider circle of favourites.

After the first day, two newcomers are on top of the list:
Fruit from France and Zappa from the U.S, both having two points out of two
rounds.

In the third round's top-match Zappa defeated Fruit
which brought him the single lead with three points from three games

If Shredder wants to get the title, he must defeat the presumed outsiders.

Considering that, the draw is a fair result.
It also keeps Shredder among the tournament's leaders.

Shredder gained an advantage in the opening, but then the game slackened,
and for a long time it looked like a clear draw. But then Fruit played very
strong and after five hours and almost 100 moves I had to resign for Shredder.
That, of course, is a severe set-back for my title ambitions. I have to admit
though that Fruit played very well indeed in this game. Shredder also took one
of his legendary rests, contemplating endlessly over a certain position.
This time he invested ten minutes for this position,
but it didn't help him. After five rounds Zappa heads the list with 4,5 points
6 rounds are still to play, so there is still something possible. However,
I need a bit of luck to win the tournament now.

After 8 rounds Zappa has now 7,5 points followed by a lot of persecutors
with 5,5 points: Shredder, Junior, Deep Sjeng, Fruit and Crafty.
It's rather hard for Zappa not to win the tournament now. Tomorrow Shredder
faces Zappa.

Although the programmers do not have to ponder about
the moves during a computerchess tournament,
operating a chess program is very exhausting.
I feel very tired at the moment, perhaps this somehow infected Shredder.

Apparently Shredder knew that he had to win.
From the very beginning he marched forward attacking hard.
But Zappa defended tremendously and turned the tide through some very good
moves.

Shredder's attack fizzled out and Zappa's counter-attack was too strong.
Very well played by Zappa; somehow everyone here is playing superb.
Zappa is most certainly the new World Champion now,
while Shredder only plays for the golden lemon.

Two more rounds are still to play, yet
most likely we will already have a new World Champion after the
10 th round tonight.

So Anthony Cozzie, Zappa's programmer, is the new World Champion in computer
chess.



Congratulations to Anthony for this outstanding performance.
Zappa played really impressively and undoubtedly deserved the title.
With one round to play, Zappa has 9,5 points.
Fruit is in second place with 7,5 points. Shredder, Junior and Deep Sjeng
follow with 6,5 points. Tomorrow Shredder will face Junior.
For the last ten years, this was the match for the title,
but this time it is probably just played for third place.


As mentioned earlier, the game wasn't that important, however.


Fruit also won, so that the final table shows Zappa on top with 10,5 points
followed by Fruit with 8,5 points.
Shredder captured a shared third place


Third place in a World Championship is certainly a very good result.
However, I wanted to win with Shredder, of course.


Zappa and Fruit have both played very strong,
so the third place for Shredder is quite ok in the end. "



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