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Subject: Re: I cancel Movei participation in CCT7

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 17:22:03 02/07/05

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On February 07, 2005 at 09:43:31, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

good evening uri. i like your program and hope you can find someone to fill
in.

good luck. gerold.



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