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Subject: Re: Fantastic attack by Junior

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 04:27:44 07/07/04

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On July 07, 2004 at 05:00:00, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On July 06, 2004 at 18:15:53, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>
>>On July 06, 2004 at 18:06:06, Amir Ban wrote:
>>
>>>On July 06, 2004 at 17:41:05, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>>
>>>>Amir, congratulations for the nice game!
>>>>
>>>>I have not seen any info about the hardware beeing used by Junior at the current
>>>>WCCC. Please tell it to the observers!
>>>>
>>>>With best regards,
>>>>Dieter
>>>
>>>It's an HP Proliant server. This is all HP is allowing me to say :(
>>>
>>>Amir
>>
>>
>>And this is allowed in accordance with the ICGA rules?? - Mhhhh. Strange.
>
>As I am remembering things, the members of this tourney usually have to fill
>forms specifying the hardware which will be used.
>
>Has this requirement changed ?
>
>Uli


Since all others are on vacation let me make a short summary.

- if you visit the official page of the WCCC you see empty space for hardware

- then I read that Amir said what you can read above. HP isn't allowing me...

- now with your information here I become more and more certain that Amir had
made one of his usual tongue in cheek. In the meantime he has stated (to Uri)
that he has 4 processors

- _without_ your input I found it pretty unfair to hide your hardware
informations; changing personalities between rounds is another problem, but
actually not forbidden, but I found that the hardware of a program should be
made public; however if the participants are informed then it's no longer
unfair; Dann Corbit made a funny remark, that a company has interests to wait if
all is going ok before they go into PR mode - this is trivial  but I hadn't
considered it :)

- IMO the 10 rounds for 14 participants is odd and in combination with the
possibility to gamble in the last rounds - this is completely without reasonable
base; but this is just a more scientific approach when we all know that the
officials and TD have _no_ connect whatsoever with universities, so I won't
become too harsh here, I know how it feels to be blamed for your lay status, I
haven't still got through with my new chessprogram *Rorybest* on 8 processors of
course - perhaps shortly before XMas...



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