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Subject: Re: WMCCC next year

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 13:38:38 11/09/97

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>I have tried to explain thoses things to Mr Van den Herik before
>the beginning of the Tournament. But there was nothing to do,
>his decision was made long before. To justify accelerated pairing,
>he said that there was a real gap between the strongest programs and
>the weakest ones. After the tournament, many games prove it is not
>true (between the parenthesis, the final rankings of the programs):
>Stobor (24 ) won against Fritz 5 (16), Chess Tiger (27) made a draw
>against Dark
> Thought (6) , Chess Guru (14) won against Shredder (3), etc...
>During the tournament, I have heard Mr Marsland himself say to Bruce
>Moreland that the accelerated pairing was not necessary...
>  Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

CSTal was in the B group of programs that are not that strong !
We did not play bad as a program from the low-level-group.



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