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

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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