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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:21:33 07/15/03

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On July 14, 2003 at 18:59:33, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>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? :-)

A supercomputer system time is too expensive to go for the second spot.



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