Author: Tony Werten
Date: 23:45:52 08/15/00
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On August 16, 2000 at 00:18:30, Mark Young wrote: >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 do. Tony >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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