Author: Hannu Wegner
Date: 23:22:03 07/28/98
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On July 28, 1998 at 18:22:42, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On July 28, 1998 at 17:15:34, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi all: >>Ivan is at my side and we have accorded the conditions. >>A) He will not play tonight, he say now he does not need to see how Ferret is. >>Nevertheless, he would like to know something of Ferret. Could you, bruce, give >>us some informations concerning rating, etc? > >I posted some information about the progarm in your other thread, the one about >"tonight". > >Ferret is not on any computer rating list, but it tends to be either the highest >rated computer, or close to it, in all of the rating categories on ICC. > >>B) I decided to put a prize to ensure that Ivan will play at his best all the >>time, so not dropping even half a point and even if he is already winning. I >>will give to him 50 bucks for each point he gets, not too much, but better than >>nothing. > >Yow. > >>C) Game will be 40/ in 2 hours and the first game should be played next monday, >>around 20:00. Ivan has some compromises in this very moment and besides we have >>time to publicy this match all over the net and so you, Bruce, has time to tell >>Ferret how to play 40 in 2 hours. > >It can play 40 in 2 hours just fine, but none of the servers support that time >control, all they do is Fischer time control and sudden-death time control. I >suggest that we could simulate it by playing sudden death in two hours, then >reset the clocks by hand, or have an admin do it for us, after move 40. > >If this sounds bad, I'd be happy to do any Fischer or sudden death time control >that you'd like. > >>D) Maybe w'll have some media coverage, but not for sure. > >I bet at least a hundred people would watch it on ICC. > >>E) Are we missing something? If anybody want to add something, give some advice, >>OK, we have time until next monday. >>F) Bruce: you can see Ivan games in chess assistant CD-3,02, around 400 games my >>friend Gonzalo -electric engineur- tell me here at my side. > >There are 13,000 of Ferret's games in the ICC database, if you would like to try >to surf that. Also, he's welcome to log on and practice, although I'm going to >change the opening book slightly before next Monday. > >>OK, that's all. Except a meteor strike Earth, nothing can stop this one. >>Cheers to all >>By the way, Ivan Elo is -next list- 2615. > >I sincerely hope my program can provide him with some interest. It doesn't have >a lot of experience at 40/2, so I don't know what will happen, but then again, >how many programs have experience playing GM's at 40/2 ? > >I expect to lose this match. I expect though that any micro would lose this >match. So I feel like I will end up looking bad, but the whole point of >building a chess program is to play chess, so if someone that strong is willing >to play, I'd be delighted to play. And the program doesn't know it's going to >lose, so it will give you the best that it has. > >If he feels the need for a larger challenge, he can play some blitz, and I >believe that I can guarantee that he will have an excellent time. > >bruce Hi Bruce, Why don't you sell your program commercially? I think that there would be a market for Ferret. I would buy one copy when you make your program compatible to one of these PC-chessboards (Chess 232, Tasc-board,...) and to the Autoplayer 232. Best greetings, Hannu Wegner
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