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Subject: Re: Latest millenium news?

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 09:54:17 04/15/01

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On April 15, 2001 at 09:44:52, Chessfun wrote:

>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.

OK, as far as I am concerned, we are ready to play and win again with our latest
version. Of course we will use our latest version.
I do not agree with these rules, but I am not the one to decide.

Sandro Necchi
>
>Sarah.



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