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Subject: Re: Win against Crafty

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 22:53:00 05/29/04

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On May 29, 2004 at 22:20:02, Mike Byrne wrote:

>A couple of caveats.  No takebacks.   I had full access to Chess informant
>ECO/MCO.  Crafty's book was set to "0" book random with a width of 3.  Repeat
>games are very likely in that scenario.  I allowed myself to repeat the same
>opening.  In addition, I was priviliged to see Crafty's thinking (that's a huge
>plus for the human).  On my 5th attempt with the same color, I was able to win.
>Game was 30 minutes per side.
>

I was running a race against Michael Johnson right about the time you were
playing Crafty. Quite an amazing coincidence, that you were playing one of the
fastest searching chess engines and I was running against the fastest man alive,
whose world record of 19.32 seconds for the 200M will stand for quite some time.

Even more amazing was that I won the race.

A couple of caveats. I had on sneakers. Michael work steel-toe boots. And a full
standard miliatary backpack and rifle. And he ran backwards, I ran forwards.

And I had a head start.

On my 5th attempt, he was finally tired enough that I won.



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