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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