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Subject: Re: New list WCCC participants and Free Hardware

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:25:46 05/28/04

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On May 28, 2004 at 13:02:56, Slater Wold wrote:

>On May 28, 2004 at 12:44:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 28, 2004 at 12:29:01, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On May 28, 2004 at 10:22:23, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 28, 2004 at 08:45:35, Mark Winands wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Author                   Program           Country
>>>>>A. Ban and S. Bushinsky  Junior            Israel
>>>>>U. Blass                 Movei             Israel
>>>>>R. Coulom                The Crazy Bishop  France
>>>>>O. David Tabibi          Falcon            Israel
>>>>>V. Diepeveen             Diep              Netherlands
>>>>>G.B.Garcia               FIBChess          Spain
>>>>>R. Huber                 ParSOS            Germany
>>>>>R. Hyatt                 Crafty            USA
>>>>
>>>>I need to start paying better attention I guess.  What the hell is this?!
>>>>
>>>
>>>Oh my..I just got goose bumps.
>>>
>>>I guess we know the answer to Vincent's challenge to either "put up or shut
>>>up"...
>>>
>>>If Robert got anything like a 4 way or 8 way manhine, I think we might hear
>>>something like "Crafty has won the WCCC 2004!".
>>>
>>>Peter
>>
>>Crafty will run on at least 4 X 2.4ghz opterons.  Perhaps more.  I'll post
>>details as they are worked out, but the 4-way is set now, as a worst-case...
>
>Who is operating Crafty?
>
>Should pull around 8M nps out of book.

As a lower bound.  If you check the CCT6 logs, it reached 11-12M many times, and
in some endings it broke 16M...

>
>The funny thing is, no one ever takes Crafty seriously, but I bet I know at
>least 2 book-makers who are probably making anti-Crafty books right now.  LOL
>
>This is gonna be neat...


It'll be competitive.  Winning is another matter.  Particularly since I have
"zero percent chance of winning"...

:)



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