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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