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Subject: Re: The marvelous showing of GnuChess at CCT3

Author: Chris King

Date: 14:49:35 05/28/01

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On May 28, 2001 at 17:30:28, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 28, 2001 at 14:01:44, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Sandwitched between Deep Shredder and Crafty in the final outcome!  What a
>>terrific showing.  It seems that there have been some broad improvements.
>>
>>11 crafty 2655 - 1/26 + ½/16 - 0/10 + 1/25 - 1/14 + 1/9 - 0/1 + 0/8 4.5 / 8
>>12 Gnuchess 2200 - 0/7 + 1/24 + 1/15 - 1/19 + 0/4 + 0/5 - 1/25 - ½/10 4.5 / 8
>>13 DeepShredder 2672 - 1/23 + 1/19 - 0/4 + ½/9 - 0/10 + 1/16 - 0/5 + 1/21 4.5 /
>>8
>
>I know that Crafty suffered drom some book problems that were not in the
>previous tournaments so the bad result of it is probably not because of bad luck
>but simply bad decisions  about the book.
>
>I guess that something similiar happened also to Shredder(it came out of book in
>bad position against insomniac) and I read that it was because of using a big
>book.

Since throwing it's hat in with the "Evil Empire" Shredder has gone from winning
world championships to finishing 13th (behind Gnuchess), in a tournament where
some of the top programs were not even participating.
Spooky or what!

>
>Uri



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