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Author: Bert Seifriz

Date: 03:30:17 12/08/98

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On December 08, 1998 at 05:50:01, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>
>Intellegence has nothing to do with this. I am responding to a post which said
>this was the biggest and strongest tornament of them all. I can see what this
>tournament was. So you can talk on all you want about what it is and means to
>play in this tournament.
>
>Hardware does have allot to do with the strength of play, and maybe the people
>there even on weaker hardware did not set the software to maximum strength. I
>think if all was fair then those result would be very different.
>
>But as you say that is not what this tournament was about. To me sounds like a
>bunch of people getting to gether and playing some computer chess. That is all
>it really is.
>
>To me, it sounds like a great day out, but on top quality competition, then
>Rebel has nothing to rave on about. It was a cheap win IMHO.
>
>To sum up a great bit of fun, but a waste of time in computer chess.


This is possibly exactly where you are wrong. I happen to know some
of the participants. These guys understand a lot about computer chess,
it is one of their main hobbies. You can see them as kibitzers and
operators at world championships, you
can read their articles about computer chess in the chess papers here,
some bought literally every piece of chess software which was ever
available. (One told me to send him new programs by double fast extra
courier, no matter what it costs, just that he could test it faster
than others, which I did not in order to save him money.)
So you can be sure that they know what they are talking about let alone
that they know how to install their software. Greetings Bert





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