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Subject: Re: HandiCapping The WCCM2000

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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