Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:33:10 08/22/00
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On August 22, 2000 at 19:16:38, Peter Skinner wrote: >>>I am picking Rebel due to it has the white pieces and was impressive vs >>>Shredder. >> >>I was not impressed. >>It could not translate the advantage to a win. > >That was unfortunate, but I didn't even expect Rebel in that match, to me that >was impressive. > >>It is not one of the top programs but it is also not one of the weakest >>programs. >>It lost on time against Junior only because of a bug and I guess that vincent >>corrected the bug. > >Diep also lost today, I don't give it much of a shot. Vincent must be having >fits of=ver there in London, we all know how proud he is of Diep, and he stated >it is not a blitz program, but rather a program best suited for tournament time >controls. Let's not forget last year where he barely got 3 points, and there was >a much weaker field. I do not think that the field was weaker last year and Diep had a lot of bugs in this tournament because vincent had not enough time to test his parallel program. > >>I believe that Diep is better than insomniac but every result is possible. >> >>I guess probabilities of 40% for Diep 30% for a draw and 30% for insomniac so >>the best I can guess if I guess only one result is that Diep is going to win. >> >>Uri > >I am picking Insomniac all the way on this one. I hope that you are right about it but I remember that Diep got 7 out of 15 when insomniac got only 2.5 out of 15 in the millenium tournament. You can download the games at http://homepages.compuserve.de/hjsxy/page4.html Uri
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