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Subject: Re: CCT6: Now 35 Participants - new guys

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:10:46 01/16/04

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On January 16, 2004 at 13:19:34, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On January 16, 2004 at 12:47:56, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>On January 16, 2004 at 12:26:31, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>On January 16, 2004 at 12:09:45, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 16, 2004 at 11:25:29, Will Singleton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Nice to see you participate, you might just win. :)  Also nice to have
>>>>>Spiderchess, another first-timer.
>>>>
>>>>Gothmog played its first two games against SpiderChess today, and my first
>>>>impression is that this engine is rather strong.  Both games ended in a
>>>>draw, but Gothmog was in serious trouble in both games.
>>>>
>>>>Tord
>>>
>>>Why don't I see your name on the participation list Tord??? :)
>>
>>Because I am still not entirely sure I'll be able to participate.  I don't
>>have any form of Internet connection at my home.  In order to participate,
>>I would have to stay in my office most of the night (two nights in a row,
>>even), and there's a long and expensive taxi drive home when I'm finished.
>>There are still good chances that I will participate, though.
>>
>>How about you?  You are also not on the list of participants, as far
>>as I can see.  :-)
>>
>>Tord
>
>Gothmog would be one of the more interesting participants, because it _can_ beat
>anyone.  A lot of the time its sacrifices are unsound, but even if Bob shows up
>with his quad opteron he might lose to Gothmog :)
>
>anthony

I hate to tell you this, but I am almost certainly going to show up with a
quad opteron now.  Final details with AMD are worked out.  They were going to
ship the machine, but I have convinced them that a DSL line on their end would
be cheaper and they agreed...

However, I am old enough and wise enough to _know_ that I can lose to _anybody_
in any given game, good hardware or not.  Otherwise we wouldn't need to actually
play the event.  :)

It will be interesting to see it play at 6-10M nodes per second, depending on
which CPUs the machine has, but it won't be invincible by any possible
measure.   You have to look no further than Brutus in Graz to see that quite
clearly.  :)





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