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Subject: Re: Tournament: no of rounds?

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 07:59:11 11/05/97

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On November 05, 1997 at 10:44:44, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>>Even Thorsten (never drinks, never smokes, no drugs, probably still a
>>virgin), likes the occasional bit of fun - you want to make him play all
>>day, everyday just to get the 'statistical confidence' level a bit
>>higher ..... ?
>>
>>Chris
>
>Thanks Chris !

that's ok ! I thought I'ld be a bit provocative and get some posting
volume .... :)

>(The fact that I am german and sometimes behave like a german seems to
>increase your fantasy !
>Even Vulcans like spock do it any 7 years ! Now I know why you invited
>me to live in your house !)
>
>I would say Junior is the strongest program, followed by a very strong
>Virtual chess (what I always said: virtual is very strong !!) and
>shredder2.
>
>This was all no surprise for me. I had no data about Junior and no
>junior-beta at home, so I was unable to put junior into my calculation.
>
>Is it really important to find out which program is how much % the
>winner ?
>
>This event was - beside all problems - fun.

Agreed. And its better that we all play in person rather than over the
internet.

>
>And I enjoyed this, although i did not smoked any cigarette or joint.

How many of the programmers are smoking joints ? Many, many it seems
....


>BTW: I drank wine and of course the BEER that Bruce had to pay me !!
>I enjoyed this too.
>The best were the daily meetings in the mornings, eating some croissants
>and coffee and the nice atmosphere in the hotel while
>breakfast-time/petit-dejeuner.

I assume the "smoky" atmosphere in the evening was not so enjoyable ?
:)

Passive stoning   :)

I, of course, was not there, so it wasn't me :)

Chris




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