Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:40:51 01/04/04
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On January 04, 2004 at 22:28:54, Ed Trice wrote:
>A rare email message arrived enveloped in TMTP format (Tachion Mail Transaction
>Protocol) this evening. Much of it was unabled to be read, but the header
>information contained IP addresses and proxy info with dates suggesting the year
>of transmission was 2019. There were an amazing number of parallels in one of
>the email threads, reprinted below....
>
>Subject: Crafty 296.03 SE vs. Nuclear Shredder Octotron 23.2 Gamma
>
>I was trying to get the 8-piece tablebases to load on my new Octium VI and was
>surprised that it took 15 seconds to load the entire set into RAM. Has anyone
>else had such problems?
>
>Nuclear Shredder found an improvement to the famous Vladislav Konjuhov vs. Erdni
>Urjubdshzirov SSR Championshipship Game from back in 2017 during one of its
>permanent hash table learning sessions. Crafty 295.22 could not find the draw
>(my old Crafty program) but Crafty 296.03 SE draws it with no problem on my 150
>GHz Octium VI with 64 TB RAM.
I have read that you must wear a lead shield if you want to work in the same
room. Is it correct?
I ask because I have ordered one and as I have just recovered from AIDS (third
time, I should really be more careful) I feel that I'm still a little bit
fragile.
Christophe :)
>The was the tiebraker (selected from ECO volume F) which Konjuhov won with just
>15 seconds left on his clock, Urjubdshzirov needing just 2 more moves to get the
>draw by the 200 move rule.
>
>[Event "SSDF"]
>[Site "Graz, Austria"]
>[Date "2019.02.04"]
>[Round "684"]
>[White "Crafty 296.03 SE"]
>[Black "Nuclear Shredder Octotron 23.2 Gamma"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2 by 200 move rule"]
>[WhiteElo "3149"]
>[BlackElo "3202"]
>[Opening "F67"]
>
>1. h3 b5 2. g3 {...text garbled...} 147. Qeh1 Q3b7 148. Q4e2 Bh7 {...text
>garbled...}
>
>
>>I was trying to get the 8-piece tablebases to load on my new Octium VI >and was surprised that it took 15 seconds to load the entire set into >RAM. Has anyone else had such problems?
>
>Yes, I had problems as well. You need to reset the Quantum Tunneling Bit on your
>Octocessor. Hold down ALT-CTL-DEL-SHIFT-TAB then hit CAPS LOCK twice. If that
>does not work, think the word "Tunnel" and look at the Cerebral Task Manager.
>
>
>>Nuclear Shredder found an improvement to the famous Vladislav >Konjuhov vs. Erdni Urjubdshzirov SSR Championshipship Game from >back in 2017 during one of its permanent hash table learning sessions.
>
>This is very old news. OmniChess published this line on ChessAether about 2
>minutes after the original match. You must not have had enough VirtualEuro for
>your subscription that minute! Most people I know have seen this already. Get
>with it!
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