Author: Mark Young
Date: 21:18:30 08/15/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 10:42:57, Peter Skinner wrote: >================================================= > >Frans Morsch,Fritz- >Ed Schroder/Jeroen Noomen,Rebel- >Ed Schroder/Jeroen Noomen/Christophe Theron,ChessTiger- >James Robertson,Insomniac- >Franck ZIBI,ZChess >Bruno BRAS,Pacque Expert >?lvaro Begu? Aguado,Ruy-Lopez >Robert Hyatt,CRAFTY- >Rudolf Huber,SOS- >Stefan Meyer-Kahlen,Shredder- >Vincent Diepeveen,DIEP- >Tony Werten,XiniX >Chrilly Donninger,Nimzo-8- >Tom King,Francesca >Amir Ban/Shay Bushinsky,Junior- > >================================================= > >This year is a fantastic field. These are the picks for the order of finish, I >feel will happen. ? are made due to versions playing unknown. > >1. Nimzo 8 >2. Shredder 5? >3. Crafty 17.13? >4. ChessTiger 12.9? >5. Junior 6? >6. Fritz 7? >7. Rebel >8. SOS >9. Insomniac >10. Diep >11. ZChess >12. Francesca >13. Ruy-Lopez >14. Pacque Expert >15. XiniX > I will not try and pick the order for each program because who really cares about who comes in last:) I will go out on a limb and pick Crafty 17.13 as the winner this years. And the reason is 2 fold. 1. Crafty right now with the versions I have seen is very strong on fast machines at long time controls. I really don't think any program right now that I have seen is much stronger then Crafty. 2. Crafty will be running on maybe the fastest computer in this tournament and unless Junior, Fritz, or someone else has made some strong progress that we just don't know about, Crafty will be very*2 hard to beat. I hope Bob will enter a solid version of crafty and not try and make too many untested changes.
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