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Subject: Re: Latest millenium news?

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 23:31:35 04/15/01

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On April 15, 2001 at 17:37:05, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>On April 15, 2001 at 12:54:17, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Hi!
>
>As you know, unfortunately Shredder is out, I and many others should have loved
>to see a challenger match between IMO the best SMP-programs Deep-Shredder,
>Deep-Fritz and Deep-Junior. Millenium couldn't accept the conditions, if this is
>because of the entry-fee or any other reasons that's up to us to speculate
>about.

Hi Bertil,

well I can live without it, too.
>
>Bertil

Ciao
Sandro
>
>>Sandro Necchi
>>>
>>>Sarah.



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