Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 23:02:42 04/15/01
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On April 16, 2001 at 01:23:24, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 15, 2001 at 18:44:06, Bertil Eklund wrote: > >> >>Here is some news about the upcoming event: >> >> >>- We invited 4 programs: DB and the Deeps of Fritz, Shredder and Junior. >>"We" is BGN and Enrique Irazoqui, with Bertil Eklund as consultant. >> >>- DB is obvious. Fritz has been leading everything in computer chess, short >>of a Swiss open of 7 rounds that receives the name "world championship". >>Shredder is strong and got the 2 last titles, whatever they mean, although >>it never topped the SSDF list, never won long tournaments. Junior is also >>strong, was first in the SSDF list about a year ago, won some long >>tournaments, achieved a PR of 2702 last year in Dortmund. The rest is either >>not strong enough or not SMP ready, which means they don't have a chance and >>their inclusion would only increase randomness. > >How do you know that Ferret is not strong enough? > >I also think that Crafty should be invited and use the best hardware that it can >use and if it means that Crafty has an hardware advantage because of the alpha >relative to the commercial it should have an hardware advantage(every program >should get the best hardware that it can use) > >I also think that every SMP should be invited because you cannot be sure that a >program is not strong enough before testing but only after testing and the fact >that a program was not strong enough in the past does not prove that it is not >strong enough today. And those that are strong enough were not given the opportunity to try and utilize SMP. Mogens.
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