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Subject: Re: Century 3 wins in Debrecen, Hungary - Final standings

Author: Marcus Kaestner

Date: 05:56:40 10/26/00

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>What was the hardware of the participants(including the humans who used

twohave had pIII-800 (century, genius 5), all others celeron 566. all with 128
mb. so the hardware-difference was not so big.

>programs
>to help them)?

the advanced players: the fm has had a dual-pentium 466 and a celeron 566, nagy
has had a PIII-800, i have had a dual-celeron 566, szabo a celeron 566

>
>It is surprising that the advanced players failed to win the competition.

yes, but century was too strong. if century would bot have compete, they would
have won.

>
>This leads to the following question
>What is the expected result of advanced players against programs(time control 2
>hours per game)?

i do not know. but they are very difficult to beat.

>It seems that there is no big difference even in cases that the players are
>FM's.

more important is how experienced you are in advanced-playing. i started with no
experience and 1 out of 7 making many "handling-mistakes" at the end i was much
more experienced, making 3,5 out of four.

marcus

>
>Uri



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