Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:03:29 05/31/98
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On May 31, 1998 at 12:05:05, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>On May 31, 1998 at 03:33:33, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>ICCA journal says: 24 Pentiums.
>>> Should i continue the game or offer a draw. I tried to find out
>>>what Christophe Theron would say if i would
>>>have told him: i offered a draw since i felt for ulf.
>
>
>>I would have killed you Thorsten. You can have concerns when your
>>opponent runs on a much slower machine and is short on time, but NOT
>>when your opponent runs on 24 processors and you have only one!!!
>
>I was so near to death !!! uff. :-)))
>Christophe, Ulf looked so down. And I was in such a sad situation.
>I wanted Tiger to win, but not to hurt Ulf and his baby.
>As I have heard the 24 machines and the garbage-time that is needed to
>coordinate them was the reason for the senseless moves. If Ulf would
>have had ONE machine with e.g. Fritz he would maybe not have made these
>weaker moves.
I have nothing against Ulf. He tries a new approach with conspiracy
number search, and this is harder for him because he has to make his own
path.
But the hardware difference was so huge that I would have shown no mercy
at all.
Give me 24 pentiums, and you will see! :)
>I asked all the other programmers what to do. I tried to make it as fair
>as possible.
To be as fair as possible, we have to let the programs express
themselves without external interference.
Christophe
>I am lucky that I am still alive !! Puh ! :-))
>
>>I felt so ridiculous and angry in Paris that I HAD to make some real
>>progress. I guess working on the endgames has made Tiger a lot stronger.
>>
>>But remember that Tiger 11 (32 bits) is born in June 1997. So in Paris I
>>had a 4 month old baby-Tiger.
>
>Understand.
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