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Subject: Re: Gandalf was moral winner!!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:47:00 02/26/01

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On February 26, 2001 at 09:01:17, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>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.

It is not exactly playing them in a different order and it also could be
playing one of the programs that scored 4.5 or 5 and not neurologic.

Gandalf had good chances to win but we cannot be sure and there were surprises
one example is that zchess (a program that scored 4 points) beated Deep Fritz.

Uri



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