Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 05:13:14 02/26/01
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On February 26, 2001 at 08:09:09, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 26, 2001 at 07:51:33, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>On February 26, 2001 at 07:40:54, Mogens Larsen wrote: >> >>>On February 26, 2001 at 01:29:34, Jouni Uski wrote: >>> >>>>Because it ran with only one prosessor, when Fritz has Shredder has two of them! >>> >>>Nonsense. The tournament didn't have hardware restrictions, so there's no such >>>thing as a moral winner regarding that particular aspect. >>> >>>Mogens. >> >>Well, I don't know what's a "moral winner". As a matter of fact, The gandalf >>engine has terribly improved. No problem to cope with the hardware disadvantage >>against the dual machines. >> >>Without the bug, throwing away the game against Fritz, Gandalf could have been >>the winner of this tourney. > >We do not know because without the bug Gandalf could play against better >opponents. against better opponents ??? Gandalf had played them all, anyway. > >I do not understand the decision of the organizers to give Gandalf to play Deep >Fritz in the first round. As a starting point, Ulf used a ranking partially based on the results of previous years ipccc. Gandalf hadn't done so well there. All members had agreed to this. > >I think that the organizers should try to play the top programs against the weak >programs in the first round and they could guess that both Fritz and Gandalf >belong to the first half of the players. > >Uri
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