Author: James Robertson
Date: 16:51:36 07/07/04
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On July 07, 2004 at 16:08:26, Derek Paquette wrote: >On July 07, 2004 at 15:53:50, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>1. Shredder 5.5 (congratulations to Stefan!) >>2. Crafty 4.5 >>3. Falcon and Junior 4.0 >> >>The 1st and 2nd places are quad Opterons! >> >>I will upload the complete standings tomorrow. >> >>======== >> >>I am quite happy with Falcon's performance, especially since I used a random >>book instead of the main book. Falcon's results were: >> >>0.5 vs ParSOS >>0.5 vs Diep >>1.0 vs Jonny >>1.0 vs The Crazy Bishop (Falcon playing French against the French program!) >>1.0 vs Junior >>0.0 vs Crafty >>0.0 vs Shredder >> >>In both the game against Crafty and the game against Shredder, Falcon had a nice >>advantage, but was outsearched (those damn quad Opterons...). Well, in the main >>tournament Falcon is doing fine so far (2nd place together with Shredder). >>Tomorrow the games in the first two tables will be: >> >>Shredder - Junior >>Deep Sjeng - Falcon >> >>The complete pairing will be uploaded tomorrow morning (the blitz tournament >>ended at about 22:00, so I had no time to update the website...) >> >>Tomorrow the games will start at 9:00. > > >Congrats to the winners and competitors, but this really means nothing. >We are all waiting for the tournament time controls It means plenty. It means that Shredder is the blitz champion. It means that Crafty is the runner up. I suppose that most people consider the tournament time controls as more weighty, but that's is just opinion. Perhaps the most common opinion, but there is no scientific reason why the blitz tournament is less important for determining program quality. James
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