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Subject: Enrique plays new tournament with only top programs?!

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:13:51 12/30/99

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On December 30, 1999 at 04:03:13, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On December 30, 1999 at 03:56:45, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On December 29, 1999 at 13:02:56, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>
>>>I would like to play a tournament. It would be at 40/40 on 2 PIII-500 with 256MB
>>>RAM. The difference in performance between a P500 and a P600 or 700 doesn't
>>>justify the price, I think. Next problem: I could play it with Tiger, Shredder
>>>4, Fritz 6, Junior 6, Hiarcs 732 and Nimzo 732, 20 game matches for a total of
>>>300 games, which takes about a month. The other possibility would be to add
>>>Crafty 17.4 and Genius 6.5, but playing 10 game matches and a total of 280
>>>games. What do you think? 20 game matches are more accurate, but including more
>>>programs is tempting, even if I don't think that they could win the torunament.
>>
>>
>>I'd like to see 20 games matches without Crafty and Genius6.5. Your players list
>>will contain the absolutely top programs at the moment except Rebel Century. You
>>should take Rebel into this tourney, it deserves to be participant.
>
>Of course Rebel deserves it, and that's why I won't include it. Let me explain:
>it seems that the auto232 driver of Rebel is hurting its performance, so it
>would be unfair to enter a handicapped Rebel. The only way would be to play it
>manually... No thanks.


Sorry, I forgot about that, you are right. On the other hand you will be a slave
of the CB autoplayer...


>>You may extend the tourney afterwards with Crafty and MChessPro8 (ranked 2nd in
>>your last tourney!), but at first I'd like to see the best playing each other. I
>>wish I'd have enough money like you have to buy 2 P3-500 and so on and I'd do it
>>on my own... ;-(
>
>We all have this problem. I wish I could get 2 dozen quads and play the Spanish
>SSDF. I always wanted to be the SSDF. :(((
>Enrique


If you decide to run this tourney, it will be VERY good right now, no need to
get another dozen of machines.

So Enrique, are you gonna play? PLEEEEASE! :-)
That would answer many questions...




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