Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:43:31 02/07/05
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On February 07, 2005 at 08:38:01, Peter Skinner wrote: >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. Yes but I guess that other participants are also stronger and I think that I was lucky last year to get 5.5/9 > >> >>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 In case that there is an operator I may change my mind but still I think that they can help better programs. I will get final decision in the next 2 days in case that I find some operator. Uri
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