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Subject: Re: SOS is amateur WMCC 2000 with 5.5 point out of 9

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 03:25:10 08/26/00

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On August 26, 2000 at 04:00:36, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 26, 2000 at 02:29:55, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On August 26, 2000 at 00:20:31, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>It beat Rebel and even Drew Fritz with a mere Pentium III 667 Mhz! I wonder
>>>what it would have been capable of if it had used a Pentium III 1000 Mhz?
>>>Probably it would have ended in number 2 and possibly ........????
>>
>>The difference in speed is worth about 29 rating points, so probably not.
>>Remember, in past such events, single CPU systems have finished ahead the SMP
>>systems, so speed is not everything. The _quality_ of the search and the eval is
>>more important.
>
>Sos probably could win Junior if it had tablebases but in this case I am not
>sure if it could help it to get better ranking because in this case it could
>play against better players like chess tiger and Zchess instead of Xinix and
>Pacque Expert.
>
>Sos was lucky to get weaker opponents when nimzo got better opponents.
>
>Uri

I believe that after 53... Qxa4 it should be drawn. Junior mishandled it
somewhere in time trouble.

Amir





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