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Subject: Re: HandiCapping The WCCM2000

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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