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Subject: Re: There goes the surprise ...

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 13:14:47 11/30/01

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On November 30, 2001 at 15:19:52, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On November 30, 2001 at 14:35:37, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 30, 2001 at 05:16:46, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>... or actually not! Gandalf gains a lot rating points and Tiger loses.
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>
>>
>>It is not surprising, because Chess Tiger has been given only partial tablebases
>>during this match.
>>
>>As pointed out somewhere else, because of this lack of TB some wins have been
>>turned into draws.
>>
>>It would have been better to not give any TBs to Tiger at all. I'm sure the
>>result would have been better.
>>
>>This result leaves a bitter taste. Thousands of hours of work (mine and the
>>hours spend by the SSDF testers on this match) spoiled by an inferior setup.
>>
>
>
>Christophe, can't you lodge a protest or something?  If the match was clearly
>unfair, it should be deleted (and perhaps begun again, this time correctly)!



Yes, we are trying to do that at this time.



    Christophe



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