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Subject: Re: I cancel Movei participation in CCT7

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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