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Subject: Re: Latest millenium news?

Author: Chessfun

Date: 06:44:52 04/15/01

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On April 15, 2001 at 03:33:05, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>On April 15, 2001 at 03:29:39, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On April 15, 2001 at 03:05:47, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>
>>>On April 14, 2001 at 21:11:41, Chessfun wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 14, 2001 at 18:06:44, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hello Christophe,
>>>>>
>>>>>the first, a good answere !
>>>>>
>>>>>>I have already given my point of view on this issue.
>>>>>
>>>>>This is right.
>>>>>
>>>>>>In short:
>>>>>>1) I still do not understand the arbitrary choice of Deep Fritz, Deep Junior and
>>>>>>Deep Shredder
>>>>>
>>>>>I agreed full with you !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>That isn't what I've been reading till now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>2) Why is the winner of such a closed tournament supposed to perform the best
>>>>>>against a player of a totally different kind?
>>>>>
>>>>>Also this is right !
>>>>>
>>>>>But which qualification is better as all the tourneys which Shredder won ?
>>>>>We have no a better compare !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>If we look at the facts forget all thse other titles you keep claiming Frank,
>>>>Shredder only won one as a SMP machine. So, you have a program that should play
>>>>after winning one 10 round or so tourney?.
>>>
>>>Shredder tournament version won all the tournaments since 1999! No other
>>>tournament version did the same. These are facts, the rest are words.
>>>Also you do not have our latest version. How can you know how strong is Deep
>>>Shredder now?
>>
>>You also do not have the latest Deep Fritz or Deep Junior(not commercial
>>version).
>
>I did not say the contrary.
>>
>>We cannot know how strong are the programs now and this is the reason that we
>>need a tournament to decide about the player who plays against kramnik.
>
>No I desagree. After the tournament one programmer may make further
>improvements, so it will never ends.
>The point is that the latest tournaments were won by Shredder, so Shredder must
>have the right to the match. If the next title will be won by another program,
>that program will have the right to the next match. It is very simple!!
>
>Sandro Necchi

Not really so simple. Given that Millennium will not comply with the stated
terms for such a match. If the organizers want to play the strongest program
now and also want the chess computer community to accept the choice not many
would agree on such an automatic selection.

Sarah.






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