Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 19:56:28 11/29/03
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On November 29, 2003 at 22:00:47, Peter Skinner wrote: >While there is a "tie-break" game tomorrow to decide the winner, in my mind >Fritz has already won. Here is my reasoning behind this. > >Fritz won it's last game, and due to incompetant and irresponsible TD management >in the tournament Shredder won it's last game when it should not have. It should >have been a draw, plain and simple. There was a bug in Shredder, and the >operator of Johnny can not ignore that a 3 fold repetition draw occured. > >I have seen a program illegally castle due to a bug, and that author was out of >luck. If the opposite had occured and Shredder was about to be mated, and Johnny >had the bug, I don't believe that Shredder would not have asked to play on. He >would have taken his half point and ran. No question. > >If I was Frans Morsh I would make a serious official complaint and take his >rightful place at the top this year. He deserves it. > >No matter the result of the games tomorrow, Fritz is the rightful 2003 champion. Well, Fritz has a bigger computer, so maybe Fritz will prevail unless Shredder really is a better engine [or has a better opening book]. How many points difference on the same machine per SSDF? How many points difference should a bigger faster computer make? Unclear. Bob D.
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