Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 13:42:18 03/30/01
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On March 30, 2001 at 15:20:05, James Robertson wrote: >I've noticed that a lot of programs are now battling the web. Does anybody know >how many people are actually voting though? Gambit Tiger, for instance, only has >the percentages, and not the actual numbers of voters. > >Out of curiosity, are these programs actually playing the "Web" or are they in >reality just playing a few dozen chess freaks from this site? Does anybody know >how many voters (even a very rough average will be interesting) there are for >the games Deep Fritz, Deep Shredder, and Gambit Tiger vs. the web? > >I'm hoping the numbers are not too low. The fact that Deep Shredder's game was >advertized on kasparovchess.com and TWIC is really good. Maybe this will attract >substantially more people. > >James Hi James, the match Deep Shredder vs. The World have interesting sponsors (a german local bank, Intel, DGT) and prizes. But for me is the following questions / experiment important: How strong is World Champion Deep Shredder on this fast hardware with longer time controls (18-20 hours). With factor 1.7 - 1.8 on Dual Pentium III 1 GHz (compare to Intel Pentium III 1.7 - 1.8) and 18-20 hours analyze time. -- in full board position = ply 17-18 after ~ 18 hours (480.000 nps) -- I know that a Thunderbird 1.3 GHz make 320.000 nps! Statistics: You can see the opening poll statistic on the DEEP SHREDDER vs. THE WORLD webpage under: http://www.gambitsoft.net/_shredder/ On the first 2 days I saw over 2.000 page impressions (no hits, over 11.000 hits in the first 2 days). This is fantastic and I know that a lot of people have interest on this match. I get eMails from people all over the world, newspaper, German computer magazines (not computer chess magazines) and also very strong chessplayer wrote me a little bit. I have fun on this match. I like also the other WEB matches with Chess Tiger. But in the match Deep Shredder vs. The World played the World Champion 1996, 1999, 2000, IPCCC Champion 2000, 2001 and this is interesting for magazines and other presse organisations. So I believe that the match have in the next time a lot of visitors. Best Frank
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