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Subject: Re: Latest millenium news?

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 05:10:47 04/16/01

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On April 16, 2001 at 04:10:45, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 16, 2001 at 03:35:12, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>On April 16, 2001 at 03:18:07, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On April 16, 2001 at 02:22:16, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 15, 2001 at 14:56:41, Chessfun wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On April 15, 2001 at 12:42:05, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On April 15, 2001 at 09:38:15, Chessfun 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?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Sandro Necchi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I do not have either the latest Deep Fritz or Deep Junior version....same thing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>If you won't comply with the stated rules anyway and the others will, then you
>>>>>>>automatically in this case disqualify yourself so regardless of how much better
>>>>>>>the current version is to the released version it's mute.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I think you are disqualifying the world champion title.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>that's all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Sandro
>>>>>
>>>>>Actually I couldn't care who the World Champion was. I want to see the strongest
>>>>>possible Computer v Humans play.
>>>>
>>>>Yes, because you do not work for one year to win a tournament and so you do not
>>>>know what it means!
>>>
>>>I think that exactly for this reason there should be a tournament to decide
>>>about the program to play against Kramnik.
>>
>>Sorry I do not agree.
>>All this would cost money and time.
>>>
>>>It was not known before WCCC that this tournament is for the right to play
>>>against kramnik.
>>
>>Yes, but still the world title should mean something.
>>>
>>>If it is agreed before the tournament that winning WCCC gives the program the
>>>right to play a match against kramnik in 2001 then I have no problem with it but
>>>thinks like this should be agreed before the tournament so everyone knows before
>>>it what the results of the tournament mean.
>>
>>Well, looking the conditions they ask I do not agree to partecipate. That's not
>>chess.
>
>I understand
>I think that the main problem is the fact that they ask to send a copy of the
>program to kramnik.
>
>I believe that kramnik is going to win easily with these conditions
>I hope that Fritz and Junior will also refuse to participate in this joke.

I hope so too.
>
>I think that a match when the program is public to the opponent should be made
>only after Kramnik is losing to the program that is not public to him.

Yes Uri, I agree.
>
>Uri

Sandro



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