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Subject: Re: IS IT LUCK

Author: Jesus de la Villa

Date: 15:11:49 08/25/00

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On August 25, 2000 at 16:52:39, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On August 25, 2000 at 16:38:03, walter irvin wrote:
>
>>is shredder that good or is it luck or just a combination of the two .i read a
>>post by bruce that said 3 out of the last 4 .that is too good to be luck .so i
>>must ask what does STEFAN know that every body else dont
>>know???????????????????????????? its almost like shredder is getting bobby
>>fischer like results .i never bought shredder ,but i guess now it is a must .its
>>obviously the strongest you can get .
>
>Computer chess is like poker.  Of course it's luck, it's always luck, when you
>talk about short tournaments like this.  But that's no reason to discount the
>result.  The result is worth exactly what the result in these tournament is
>always worth.
>
>bruce



May be he was a bit lucky but I can add...

When you are strong you depend less in luck.
Any weak program can win the WMCC but...it needs to be VERY, VERY LUCKY !
Programs like Shredder and some others needs clearly less luck,
because they are solid programs.
So, "The stronger you are, the less luck you need".


- Jesus



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