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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