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Subject: Re: This tourney might be the toughest, something to think about........

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 02:50:05 07/10/04

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On July 10, 2004 at 05:36:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>>Fritz greatly reduced its chances for overall victory by losing on time
>>against Falcon in round three. This was due not to faulty algorithms, but by
>>the computer hanging, as we have learnt from members of the Fritz team.
>
>This sounds like complete nonsense to me.
>
>Why did the Fritz team not check whether the computer was still running,
>they are allowed to do so (after asking the tournament director).
>
>Moreover, a hang should be obvious from the clocks on the remote system
>no longer running.
>
>--
>GCP

Fritz's team simply don't want to admit that the other programs are getting much
stronger, or catching up to the big boys, simply take a look at how close Deep
Sjeng, Falcon, and Crafty are :-)


PS: I simply want to add that this might be the toughest competition for top
commercials, when even freebie like Crafty is getting closer to the best
commercials.

Jorge



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