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Subject: You got the point almost completely

Author: Theo van der Storm

Date: 11:03:11 10/20/03

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On October 20, 2003 at 04:54:33, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 20, 2003 at 03:54:03, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:
>
>>On October 19, 2003 at 17:32:40, Theo van der Storm wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>You missed the point completely.
>>>Look what happened in the 5th round:
>>>
>>>All three Lokasoft programmes won
>>>and look what happened to the competition:
>>>Ruffian and Diep each played a draw.
>>>The King and IsiChess MMX lost.
>>
>>So what? It's like having Boris Becker playing a tennis tournament with you and
>>me and Thorsten Czub. Boris would easily win against all of us. Would you then
>>also say "Boris Becker is back!"?
>
>No
>
>It is clearly not the same.
>
>You have no chance against Boris Becker but Ruffian,Isichess,Diep and the king
>are not engines without chances against Rebel,Tiger or Deep Sjeng.
>
>Even if you look at it only as a commercial competition
>chessbase is not the only company in the world and
>the company that sells chessmaster is also competing against Loaksoft.
>
>Do not forget also that part of the private engines may become commercial
>and not as loaksoft engines so they are also comepting.
>
>
>>
>>This is ridiculous. You put some strong Lokasoft engines in a tourney with the
>>world elite absent, these engines happen to win against such nobodys as Isichess
>>or Diep and then you say "Lokasoft returns!".
>
>Isichess and Diep are not nobody.
>
>Diep drew in the past in tournaments even against Fritz and Shredder so it
>is not something that chessbase engines can be sure of winning against it.
>
>Isichess is also not a weak engine that you can be sure of winning.
>
>Why do you try to belittle the opponents?
>They may be 100 elo or 200 elo weaker but it does not mean that a win against
>them is obvious.
>
>
> I bet, these Lokasoft engines
>>would not have performed so well against Fritz, Hiarcs, Shredder and Junior.
>>
>>Andreas
>
>Chessbase is not competing in this tournament so I do not see a reason why do
>you insist on talking about chessbase.
>
>Chessbase could participate and chose not to do it but even in case that the
>tournament was a tournament that chessbase could not participate there is no
>reason to be against saying some good word about loaksoft engines based on
>result because they still compete against other non chessbase engines.
>
>Uri

Uri,

Thanks. You got the point almost completely.
I can only add the following:

The start of this thread (Dutch Open CC (5) results from Leiden(NL) ...)
was about round 5 results, nothing more.

Before round 5 the three programs occupied ranks 2+6+7 = 15
and everybody was a point behind the leader.

After  round 5 they               occupied ranks 2+3+4 =  9
and they were all only half a point behind the leader
and behind them there was half a point gap with the rest of the field.

Wow, exciting tournament!

Theo



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