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Subject: Re: Which Program is Currently the Best at Tactics?

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 14:21:35 07/01/03

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On June 30, 2003 at 17:03:54, John Merlino wrote:

>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

Yeah I realy like  good wine.

Marc



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