Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 07:43:23 10/26/00
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On October 26, 2000 at 08:56:40, Marcus Kaestner wrote: >>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 I have no idea what this Tournament is all about. I cannot fathom poor performance of the top programs here. I have not seen any posts on before this. Sorry for my ignorance, but I am very interested in all results of the new programs. I can afford to buy a couple of them and need to gather information best as I can here to help me in decision making.
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