Author: Mark Young
Date: 01:49:31 08/16/00
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On August 16, 2000 at 04:18:45, Uri Blass wrote: >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 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. > >Thorsten czub predicted that crafty is going to lose because it has not enough >knowledge about king safety. > >He predicted that crafty is going to lose against other programs because of this >lack of knowledge. >He predicted that Rebel is going to win and shredder is going to be second and >Fritz is going to be 3th place when crafty is going to be only 9th place. If king safety is Thorsten's only reason then Thorsten will be wrong again:) > >We are going to see who is right. > >Uri
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