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Subject: Re: Gandalf was moral winner!!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:26:32 02/26/01

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On February 26, 2001 at 08:13:14, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>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.

Gandalf played neorologic in the second round and without losing the fist round
it could avoid game with this program.
>
>>
>>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.

Gandalf is known to be stronger today relative to last years.
It was never claimed that gandalf is a top program some years ago when today it
is a top program.

The hardware some years ago was slower and it is known that gandalf earns more
speed from fast hardware.

It seems that it was better to use also some common sense.

Uri



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