Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:03:54 06/30/03
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On June 30, 2003 at 14:21:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>2)There is still time to decide about going to the world champs 2003 and Johan >>may change it's mind and go > >Johan has zero influence here. It is ubisoft deciding to go or not to go and >they do not go because they fear getting annihilated there. Everyone prepares >very well for the world champs. You, once again, have no idea what you are talking about. Johan has NEVER been told to go to a tournament or not go to a tournament. He takes The King to the tournaments that he wants to take it to, and does not take The King to the tournaments that he does not want to take it to. Johan has ALL of the "influence", meaning it has ALWAYS been his decision to make. If Johan had told us that, instead of taking his usual Amazons program to this event, he wanted to take The King, we would have said nothing more than to wish him good luck. And, as for "fear", how about pitting your program on a *SINGLE* CPU P4-2.4GHz machine against the current U.S. Champion, in a 4-game match live on ICC with hundreds of people watching, with other GM's and IM's doing live commentary? Not to mention winning.... And what hardware was Diep running during this game? I could look it up myself but it appears that www.computerschaak.nl is down (and has been for a few days, apparently).... [Event "3rd Intl.CSVN"] [Site "Leiden NED"] [Date "2003.05.17"] [Round "06"] [White "Diep"] [Black "The King"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 cxd4 5.Qa4+ b5 6.Qxd4 Nc6 7.Qd2 exd5 8.Qxd5 Bd7 9.Qe4+ Be7 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bxe7 Ngxe7 12.e3 a6 13.O-O-O Rc8 14.Be2 b4 15.Bg4 f5 16.Bxf5 Bxf5 17.Rxd8+ Rxd8 18.Qf4 g5 19.Qg3 bxc3 20.bxc3 Rb8 21.f3 Rb1+ 22.Kd2 O-O 23.e4 Rd8+ 24.Kc2 Rbd1 25.Qf2 Be6 26.Qe2 Ra1 27.Qxa6 Rxa2+ 28.Qxa2 Bxa2 29.Ne2 Bc4 30.Nc1 Ng6 31.Rg1 Nce5 32.Nb3 Bd3+ 0-1 >Note that Johan never joins under chessmaster with his program the tournaments >15 minutes from where he lives. He joins under 'the king'. > >99.9% Majority of users do not know it is Chessmaster, just like majority of >users do not know that quest joining = fritz. You are only partially correct. In the credits of Chessmaster, it clearly says that the engine that is used in Chessmaster is called "The King", and I'm pretty sure that even some press releases have talked about "the engine in Chessmaster, called The King...." Somehow, I doubt that the engine in Fritz is officially named "Quest". But it is probably, and unfortunately, true that most users do not know the name of the engine in Chessmaster, regardless of its recent victories. jm
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