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Subject: Re: Paderbourne starts tomorrow, who's gonna win?

Author: Chuck

Date: 14:08:51 02/19/01

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On February 19, 2001 at 16:36:34, David Wilke wrote:

>>>1. Shredder
>>>2. Gandalf
>>>3. P.ConNorS
>>>4. SOS
>>>5. Fritz
>>>
>>>Now 3 - 5 can be interchanged. I think Shredder will win (like always), and
>>>Gandalf will be a very close second. Everything else will be atleast a full to
>>>full and a half point behind.
>>
>>I think that you underestimate Fritz.
>>I guess that Fritz is going to be in the second place.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I don't underestimate Fritz, I just think based on results I have seen over ICS,
>Fritz will not come second. Shredder is the best at this time control, no
>doubting that...
>
>If there were a couple of other programs here, I would say Fritz had a higher
>chance, but based on who is there, it will get a couple easy points, and
>probably not do as well in the others.
>
>Gandalf is also very strong at this time control. I think it and Shredder will
>battle it out for top spot.

I second Uri's vote. Fritz will be near the top. And he has not been
particularly lucky in recent tournaments. Of course, most engines probably get
more tuning against Fritz than any other (except maybe Crafty), so maybe this
factor goes against Fritz.

Chuck



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