Author: Shep
Date: 02:19:16 06/10/99
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On June 09, 1999 at 17:53:40, Manuel J. Petit de Gabriel wrote: > >On June 09, 1999 at 06:00:46, Shep wrote: > > >>Crafty won't be there. LGG2 is quite interesting and the rest should be >>commercial entries. > >Why should? Just curious. > >I'm sure there are a lot of crafty lovers which will be very happy >seeing it against the top commercial programs in you tournament. The problem is: there are probably 15-20 top (commercial) programs which are roughly in the same class. Deciding which to include and which to leave out is painful already (I would have loved to have Nimzo 98 and Hiarcs 6 as well just because of their sheer strength). Every slot that goes to a non-commercial program makes the decision even harder. Therefore I have decided in the early planning stage that I would have at most one non-commercial entry. Crafty has already played many games at my site and I wanted to give other non-commercial programs a chance as well. Another point: I want to have the strongest versions participate. How often has it happened that a programmer went to W(M)CCC with a version that was not tested as thoroughly as a commercial release version? I couldn't test any newer Crafty recently (16.4 didn't impress me), so that was another point to hold against a Crafty participation. I guess no-one (including myself) will ever be happy with the participants list as long as I stick to 'only' 12 entries, but as I said, each new entry means two more weeks playing time (remember I only have two machines, not one for every program!). --- Shep
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