Author: blass uri
Date: 17:11:34 09/28/99
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On September 28, 1999 at 16:12:44, Thoralf Karlsson wrote: >On September 28, 1999 at 15:02:13, KarinsDad wrote: > >> >Well, I am a rather naive person and my interpretation was that they had a >>limited number of machines, so they picked the top 4 autoplayer capable programs >>on the previous list. Is this an incorrect and naive assumption on my part? I >>don't think so. > >This is actually entirely correct. My first intention was to play with Fritz >5.32, Hiarcs 7, Nimzo 99 and Junior 5.0. We started to play with Hiarcs 7, but >after less than ten games the tester had to change motherboard and after that he >didn't manage to play automatically any more for a long time. I asked him if he >could play 100 games manually with CM6000 on K6-450, now that he couldn't play >automatically, but he said no. > >To play both with Fritz 5.0 and Fritz 5.32 seemed pointless, so F5 was excluded. I do not think that it is pointless It is not clear if Fritz5.32 is better relative to Fritz5(there is only a small difference in p200) Uri > >When Hiarcs 7.32 arrived it seemed much more interesting to play with that >program than with Hiarcs 7. > >I could have published the list earlier, with only Junior 5.0 having played 100 >games, but that would certainly have looked like an unfair advantage for Junior, >getting the first place of the list without any competition. > >I could have postponed the list for 1-2 months more and included Rebel 9, MCP8 >and Shredder 2.0 in order to avoid the situation with only ChessBase-programs, >but I had promised a list in August, and the pressure was high to publish it. > >Thoralf Karlsson, SSDF
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