Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 09:44:42 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 08:35:16, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: <snip> >Oh well, the latest versions of DIEP are in the top3 for sure. > >Whether it's better than Shredder or worse, we'll see in world champs 2004. > >It would be a wrong conclusion to say that Shredder isn't dominating currently. >Anyone denying that has dirt in his eyes. Shredder 7.04 and 8 are over-all >monsters. Any other engine that says he's in top3 must proof his point and beat >it. > >What happened in 2003 and before simply doesn't count. In 2003 the Shredder 7.04 >and 8 were simply a lightyear ahead of any other engine with respect to engine >strength (note that in order to win not only engine matters, book can be very >decisive too, like Kure has proven in world champs 2003 where he kicked major >butt). So in 2004 the others must show they can make up for that or they run >still a lightyear behind. > >I did it once in 2004, why not a second time? > >I really feel current diep is in top 3 for sure and will try to proof that in >world champs 2004. Ahh, on cloud nine again? Hopefully your touch down isn't that hard... > >You can see it in this way. In November 2003, diep sucked. >From december 2003 till today i worked at diep's eval. Note in the night before >ict4 i have done 15 modifications to diep's eval. So i had 3 hours sleep. > >That's december,januari,februari,march and a part of april. Say 4.5 months. > >In 2 days it's May. That gives me another 3 months. > >If i can boost it from something that sucks ass in december 2003 to something >that beats shredder in april, that gives me 3 months to improve Diep to beat the >rest. > May be you should continue to count months, mai,june, oups already beginning of july. But i guess two months are quite enough... see you, Gerd
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