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Subject: Re: just luck, shredder is a real champion

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 21:32:57 04/28/04

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On April 29, 2004 at 00:05:38, John Merlino wrote:

>On April 28, 2004 at 23:55:45, ERIQ wrote:
>
>>On April 28, 2004 at 21:49:15, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On April 28, 2004 at 19:25:34, ERIQ wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 28, 2004 at 14:30:13, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The latest and greatest did really well, in the last computer contest.  So, will a Windows version (XP or lesser) be made ready for buying?
>>>>
>>>>amazing! there is one buyer :)
>>>>
>>>>>I have my credit card ready?  I can even send a postal order, or cheque!
>>>>
>>>>wow!!
>>>>
>>>>>It will make a nice addition to an already growing pile of Chess Stuff!
>>>>
>>>>not sure why?! but to each his own.
>>>>
>>>>IMO. diep couldn't beat it's way out of a paper bag in the middle of a rain
>>>>storm, what would be the purpose in buying it?
>>>>
>>>>save you money and get crafty, you'll feel better afterwards :)
>>>
>>>Not only did Diep beat the Champion (Shredder) at the recent tournament at
>>>Leiden, it was the only program to NOT LOSE to Shredder! It can't be that
>>>bad....
>>>
>>>jm
>>you know as well as I, that any program can have a good event, that does not
>>make it a champion. Shredder is a real champion, it has won lots of events and
>>as fischer put it "strength is better determined by match play", and so being, I
>>don't think diep would win a 20 game match with any of the top 5 programs today.
>>I just don't think much of diep or it's style.
>>
>>Sign,
>>   Eriq Lamar
>
>I didn't say that Shredder wasn't a great program, nor did I mean to infer that
>Diep was a "top 5 program". All I was saying was that Diep can't obviously be as
>bad as your colorful statement above claims, or else it couldn't have beaten a
>champion.

I've found it very hard to get people on this forum to agree about the
possibility of _assesment_ of playing strength, or of ANY meaning at all of
anything, from a sample of a few games.
S.Taylor
>
>Name me one GM who "couldn't beat <his> way out of a paper bag in the middle of
>a rainstorm" who also beat Kasparov....
>
>jm



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