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Subject: Re: DIEP (too much power for humans)

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 15:59:33 07/14/03

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On July 14, 2003 at 10:13:58, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>So brutus is dangerous because it is going to score a big number of points in
>its home competition. Shredder is simply very good. And the junior team is
>always mercilous getting somehow points, but i don't fear them. You can't win
>world titles continuesly by just being mercilous and having a well debugged
>engine.

But Junior has won world titles before... :-)

>The only unsure thing always in world champs is the role of the openingsbooks.
>In that sense Shredder is the program to beat there.

It sounded from your description that you had problems with configuration issues
last year, and also some testing oversights.  I guess the question is if you
have solved that this year, and if so, how much difference it will make.  Most
competitors are not standing still either!

Dave

P.S. So do you have a prediction for what place you will finish in? :-)



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