Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 06:49:08 05/30/04
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On May 30, 2004 at 01:53:00, Ed Trice wrote: >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. Ed, Your sarcasm is surprising for someone who advocates a chess variant that is played on a 10 by 10 board with wierd pieces. I guess there is truth to the words "to each his own". Michael
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