Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 11:31:33 10/28/97
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On October 28, 1997 at 14:30:01, Chris Whittington wrote: > >On October 28, 1997 at 10:45:04, Chris Whittington wrote: > >> >>results from Thorsten.... > >Updated later, unfortunately Thorsten was not in the hall when I spoke >to him, there is no paper to photocopy anything - so this is from his >memory .... > >> >>CSTAl Mchess draw >>Fritz Anmon draw !!! >>Francesa Shredder 0-1 >>DArk thought Technochess 1-0 >>Aurther Stobor unknown, but by deduction 1-0 >>SOS Woodpusher 0-1 !!! >>XXXX kallisto draw >>Toledo Gandalf 1-0 on time >>Isischess Comet 0-1 >>Capture Hydra 0-1 >>Dragon Ananse 0-1 >>Goliath Eugen 1-0 >>Patzer Tiger unknown, sorry, maybe a loss by Patzer ? >>Virtual Junior 1-0 >> >>Guru Crafty 0-1, surprisingly according to Thorsten. Guru suggests Guru has endgame problems since it was standing better earlier Sorry this should read: >>Guru Crafty 0-1, surprisingly according to Thorsten. THORSTEN suggests Guru has endgame problems since it was standing better earlier >> >>Nightmare TCB 0-1 >>Ferret Diep draw >> > >Tomorrow > >Mchess Arthur >CSTal Junior > >Sorry says Thorsten, there was no paper, so no more info. > > >New twist on the beer scandal: > >Still no beer on the Tueschen scandal - says Thorsten >Stepan says only beer per person for wins against alphas - not one beer >for each winning game. Thorsten is very disapointed :) > >Ananse says he has found and fixed a bug in his program, and there is a >rumour that he will win tomorrow against ISichess. The ischess >programmer is very worried and now tonight preparing against Ananse - >all according to Thorsten. > > >And on the AMD machines: > >AMD replaced 15 200's with 233's. But the technician came too late and >was unable to do it accurately because of some voltage problems. For >this reason some machines became too hot or whatever and crashed and we >assumed that the crash of Goliath in the game against Mchess was caused >by this hardware failure, and operator said he tried the same position >on another machine and it worked. Goliath couldn't be fixed after three >hours (apparently the operator was not very used to the program, and it >is difficult to detect whether it was a hardware or software failure; so >it was adjudicated a loss. It is said that the position runs on another >AMD machine. > >Junior also had problems with his machine and has now upgraded to a new >P2 300, starting with his game with CSTal tomorrow. > >Thorsten says all the people are in a good mood at the moment, they >don't let themselves be destroyed by the technical problem. > >Also Franz Morsch is not happy with his opening today - it was some of >repetition with a knight on c6-a5 repeating. Apparently the program came >with a little minus out of book, so Fritz repeated, this despite wanting >and expecting to win against Anmon. Big opening books don't always help. > > >>Chris Whittington
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