Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 06:01:17 02/26/01
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On February 26, 2001 at 08:46:29, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On February 26, 2001 at 07:51:33, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>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. > >You won't get any objection from here. There are no proper distinction between >moral and immoral winners (or losers). > >>Without the bug, throwing away the game against Fritz, Gandalf could have been >>the winner of this tourney. > >I agree with Uri's point. The draw would have been different, so you can't >extrapolate the result. You don't need chaos theory to make that connection :-). I think, that Gandalf had played all of the bigger guys anyway. Playing them in another order can of course produced different results. Agreed so far. > >Steen called it a Swiss-gambit. > >>Anyway, the 3rd rank is a big success, IMO. > >That we can agree upon. If you've changed the design of your program, it must be >nice to know that you're on the right track. > >Something similar can be said about some of the other contestants, ie. Quark, >Gromit, Yace and Comet (?). > >So when do we see the new Comet? Currently, I don't think that the few changes leading to the ipcc version are worthwhile releasing a new freeware version. Uli > >Regards, >Mogens
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