Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:26:50 07/08/04
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On July 08, 2004 at 13:10:47, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On July 08, 2004 at 11:08:06, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On July 08, 2004 at 07:47:03, Drexel,Michael wrote: >> >>>On July 08, 2004 at 07:23:54, George Sobala wrote: >>> >>>>Crafty now languishing in 3-4th from last place! >>>> >>>>ALthough I'm sure it will now start to mup up the weaker opposition, it has met >>>>its tough opponents. >>> >>>Don't count on it. There is no weaker opponent for Crafty except Woodpusher,TCB >>>and FIBchess. Even Movei and Jonny are quite dangerous opponents. >>>Jonny has a very good opening book for example. >>> >>>Michael >> >>Crafty is certainly better than movei even with equal hardware. >> >>place 10 out of 14 will be a good result for movei and it means that it needs to >>be above some opponent except woodpusher,TCB and FIBchess(it already played >>against them and failed to win against woodpusher). >> >>Uri > >George wrote Crafty has met the tough opponents already and will start to mop up >the rest. >mop up means something like "vernichten" in German. >I doubt it will do that against ParSOS,Falcon,Diep,Jonny and Movei. > >Michael Its hardware advantage against at least 3 of those is pretty difficult to handle. While it might lose all the games, it should win 3 of them handily and the other two will be closer. Unfortunate to see the top games over already. Now the last 5 rounds are just going to be "chess" unless an unexpected upset changes the top group, which is not very likely (although always possible).
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