Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:32:07 01/17/04
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On January 17, 2004 at 09:08:10, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >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 To win one of these you need the following: (1) a program that is reliable. IE it doesn't crash, make illegal moves, screw up time calculations and so forth. It needs to have at least a reasonable search and evaluation of course. (2) decent hardware. Not the fastest, although faster is always better, but not a 486 either. (3) Some opening book preparation to avoid dead lost games or positions your program simply does not handle well. (4) a goodly portion of luck. (5) more luck.
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