Author: Peter Berger
Date: 14:21:24 02/06/01
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On February 06, 2001 at 15:40:03, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >Congratulations to Frans Morsch for the victory of Deep Fritz and for another >exceptional program. > >And also to Christophe Théron. Gambit Tiger was that close to win the >tournament. After 285 games, with only 15 more to go, Gambit was just half a >point behind Deep Fritz. Then Gambit was caught 3 times with the same D47 >opening line and it was all over. Overall, a great performance, even greater >considering that it was the only program that played without tablebases. > >I want to express my gratitude to Frederic Friedel for the splendid job he has >done in the presentation of the tournament, and also to IM Hannu Wegner, whose >reports on the matches have been truly valuable. > >Enrique I think it is quite interesting that in fact in two games it was/would have been necessary for Gambit Tiger to mate with bishop and knight . It has been only recently that this has been discussed here with a tendency to think of it as being irrelevant for strength ; it obviously wasn't irrelevant here . It really seems whenever one program knows something the other doesn't this _will_ somehow show up sooner or later and much more often than should be expected . pete
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