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Subject: Re: Latest millenium news?

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 09:16:48 04/16/01

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On April 16, 2001 at 11:38:07, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Well, not that arbitrary after all. Fritz, Junior, Schredder are all of them top
>programs with plenty of titles to show. Compared with them, even the most
>promising current engines should still wait to have something to show in tourns.

You're right, the engines are very capable. But there are other good SMP
programs with good results from the not so distant tournament past. After all,
inviting Deep Blue illuminates the arbitrary selection process IMO. Or you could
call it a flourishing imagination instead.

>The point is that to produce a really ecumenical tourn you need a
>disporportionate amount of extra money for each aditional day.

That depends on the arrangement. There have been comparatively cheap tournaments
every year without a proportionate number of mistakes.

>Else; it will be
>not a close room tourn, as has been said. It is made in open air, with plenty of
>journalist, internet coverage, arbiters, pèople from SSDF, etc. The atmosphere
>of mistery that has been thrown over the tourn and his proceedings is absoluteky
>unfair and misleading. But, as yousay, we will see...

A lot of commotion for a match between Deep Junior and Deep Fritz. I wonder how
many games they'll play.

Mogens.



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