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Subject: Re: I cancel Movei participation in CCT7

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 05:38:01 02/07/05

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On February 07, 2005 at 04:36:54, Uri Blass wrote:

>Reasons:
>
>1)I will not be available in part of the time of the tournament for personal
>reasons that I could not know about them before yesterday.

There are a few authors that have operators _and_ will be there _most_ of the
time. As I said in a previous post, one has to take a son to a hockey practice,
and another is taking his wife out for an early Valentine's Day breakfast.

>
>2)I did not work much about movei lately and most of the time was used for
>things that are not productive for playing strength so I failed to do a
>significant improvement relative to the public version.

Certainly the version _is_ stronger than the one that participated last year.

>
>I am optimistic about improvement but things that are not relevant for playing
>strength like functions to debug my tablebases code have priority so I do not
>expect to see improvement before CCT7.
>
>Uri

I would hate to lose your entry Uri. Movei provided one of the best games of the
tournament last year, and I was looking forward to seeing it participate again.

Would you like some time to think it over, possibly get an operator?

Peter



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