Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 06:08:10 01/17/04
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On January 16, 2004 at 23:10:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. :) Just remember what IM Schroeder said about Zappa last tournament - "Its better to be lucky than to be good." We'll see if Zappa can be as lucky in CCT6 as it was CCT5 :) anthony
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