Author: Harald Faber
Date: 02:38:05 12/30/99
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On December 30, 1999 at 04:28:20, 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... > >The autoplayer of CB is fine. This is not the problem. What bothers me is that I >will have to play CB engines in F532. F6 and J6 have too many bugs right now. Enrique, I always read Fritz6 and Junior6 have many bugs. I know J6 has a not working auto analyze function. What else can you mention, and I mean real bugs and no minor flaws. >>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... > >Yesterday I phoned my dealer and I'll get the machine this evening. I got up at >5am after 2 hours sleep, excited like a child. Even my 13 year old son is >laughing. :( It is hard that there are people who don't understand the degree of excitement. One of them is my wife. :-) (Certainly all married guys here can say the same) :-) >So: RT, S4, J6, F6 (which one?), H732 and N732 at 40/40 on 2 PIII-500 with 256MB >RAM, 20 game matches, total of 300 games. After this is done (one month) I might >enter another program. > >Enrique Enrique, this is GREAT, may I kiss your feet? ;-)) This will bring up light in the jungle of the new programs.
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