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Subject: Re: Shredder is the World Computer Speed Chess Champion

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:17:11 07/07/04

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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.


Crafty used my ICC book for the blitz event to avoid giving away "secrets"
before the real tournament games.  :)  The book was _wide_ open and at least a
couple of the openings were really gross.  But it served its purpose. :)




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