Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:18:04 05/14/04
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On May 13, 2004 at 23:29:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On May 13, 2004 at 14:40:37, Russell Reagan wrote: > >After 4 airplanes get hijacked and all shot down or crash (2 dutch ones and 2 >german ones) and a suicide bomber also takes out Omid & Amir & Shay at the rare >occassion that both were at the same time at some market place, negotiating to >get another sponsor for the world champs 2004; only then crafty's chances rise >from 0% to 1%, because that 3d dutch airplane not shot down, not only brings the >icga tournament direction, but also Johan de Koning who grabs his chance to get >the title by just winning from crafty. With his PDA he then beats crafty and >movei and gets world champ. > >by the way there are a few beta 8 way opteron NUMA machines where crafty might >run at, but 64 processor clusters like bob soon has one himself, crafty won't >run any soon at. > >However even if it would run there, as we know in case of a disaster Johan will >grab his chance and beat it with his PDA. > >Of course if Johan loses he still can demand crafty to get excluded when the >always active uncle Bob has typed over for his new secret bookc.bin lines from >commercial chess program books. I've never copied a commercial book. I don't have access to a single commercial program. I believe it was _you_ in the past that claimed to have hijacked commercial books. I do my own. > >Just go check it out ;) Feel free to prove that any lines I played in the last CCT event came from a commercial program's book. Just like you proved that I wrote a JICCA article on the crafty parallel search. Just like you proved... Well, you really have _never_ proven anything so forget about it... > >>On May 13, 2004 at 13:51:50, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >> >>>And in this "sport", the European Champion is almost certainly the world >>>champion. After all, both MLB and NBA teams call their best teams the world >>>champions, despite not inviting teams from Europe. >> >>The reason there are no European teams in those leagues is because it is not >>practical. Travel time, jet lag, you lose half your audience, and so on, which >>results in less money generated, poorer quality of play. >> >>However, the best players in those sports from Europe (and everywhere else) >>would be able to play in those leagues if they so desired. Those leagues pay >>players truck loads of money and do whatever it takes to get the best players in >>the world. If there is a basketball player from Europe that is among the top >>handful of players in the world, every team in the NBA would be offering to fly >>him over here and pay him many millions of dollars. I don't see the European >>organization doing anything close to that in computer chess. >> >>These are really two different situations IMO. The NBA, etc. can call their >>champion the world champion legitimately, because they took measures to make >>sure they had the best players participating. On the other hand, the ICGA >>doesn't have millions of dollars (that I'm aware of) to ensure that the best >>participants participate. However, there are reasonable alternatives to the >>current format that would allow people from all over the world to participate. >>They don't seem too interested in that so far. >> >>If they wanted to ensure that the best participants in the world participated, >>they could do so, but they choose not to. >> >>>It seems fairly obvious to >>>me that the chance of any american engine beating Fritz, Shredder, Junior, >>>Hiarcs, or Ruffian in a match is very small. >> >>Crafty running on a mere 4-way box in CCT6 wasn't convincing enough? How about >>an 8-way box? 16-way? 32-way? 64-way? All of those are realistic possibilities >>of what Bob Hyatt might show up with if he participated in a WCCC. I wouldn't >>call that a "very small chance" of winning. I especially wouldn't say that it >>was "obvious" that he had a "very small chance" of winning.
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