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Subject: Re: New SSDF rankings up!

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 02:50:09 09/27/99

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On September 27, 1999 at 04:54:50, Christophe Theron wrote:

>>good that i am not that slow...
>>i would not have been able to find out things as  "early"
>>as they are doing it ...


>That's right, you have been the very first tester to tell me that Tiger was able
>to compete against top programs. This was before the Feb. 98 Paderborn
>tournament.

it was very easy christoph. it killed all opponents. so how should it
NOT be strong. your problem was that you did not believed after paris
that this could happen so early. you worked hard on making tiger
stronger after paris championship and it was really worth working.

>I was surprised and I did not believe you.


:-)))) i still have to laugh about that...

it is a strange job to convince a programmer that his program is on top :-))


>You played about 40 tournament games
>BY HAND (Tiger had no Auto232 driver in these days).

:-)))


>Just after that, Tiger took the 3rd place in Paderborn.

could have been 1st, but gandalf killed it in the last round.
a draw would have been enough to win the tournament.


>I have put the "prize" in my office. I can see it everyday, and I remember what
>you told me...

:-))) good - but maybe we should better send a copy of this paper to sweden :-))



>
>    Christophe



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