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Subject: Re: All the pros got scared away by crafty

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 23:21:11 01/07/05

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On January 07, 2005 at 17:29:42, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 07, 2005 at 05:21:45, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>On January 06, 2005 at 18:58:20, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On January 06, 2005 at 18:39:49, enrico carrisco wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 06, 2005 at 14:59:49, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>When they thought they could steamroll, all of them entered.
>>>>>
>>>>>Now that they know crafty can clean their clock, their absence is rather
>>>>>conspicuous.
>>>>>
>>>>>IMO-YMMV
>>>>
>>>>Gosh, I don't remember Crafty cleaning Hiarcs' clock at all in CCT6.  A blitz
>>>>loss to Zappa in the tie-break caused the default win for Crafty.
>>>
>>>They always have tie-breakers like that (e.g. in WMCCC contests) and Ferret lost
>>>in that way one time (IIRC).
>>>
>>>>Of course, the facts tend to take the sensationalism out of your post.  :)
>>>
>>>But not the gist of it.  They professional programs are CLEARLY afraid of
>>>getting clobbered by crafty.
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>you are really funny!
>>
>>Thanks, I needed to laugh a little today...
>
>It is nice to see that at least one professional program is not scared of being
>clubbed by one or more amateur programs.
>
>We can count on Shredder's participation then?

No, I do not think so as we are too busy completing Shredder 9.

It has not been so easy to improve Shredder 8 engine, the book an the Classic
GUI.

We are completing this as this is our top priority.

When this will be finished we will check which tournaments we can attend.

Sandro

>
>>>>Btw, I searched the net for about two hours last night looking for Amy 0.8.7 and
>>>>was unsuccessful.  Seems your ftp was down or some sort of connection problem
>>>>and no one else seems to host the windows version.  Are you back up?
>>>
>>>Try the command line ftp client.  No passive mode.



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