Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:01:03 02/11/05
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On February 11, 2005 at 11:35:51, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >Now that the tournament is about to start, who wants to throw out some guesses >on the ending: > >1. Do you think there will be Co-champions or a single winner? 1.Zappa single winner. >2. Who do you think has the best chance to win? 1.Zappa >3. Which country has the best chance of winning? USA >4. What do you think the score of the winner will be? 8 out of 9 >5. Which engine in the top 10 has the best chance of finishing in the bottom >half? Crafty if Mike Byrne is mothersoul alone. Quark will finish < 10 anyway (sorry Thomas). >6. Which engine in the bottom half has the best chance of finishing in the top >10? The Baron >7. Which engine pair do you think will win the Brilliancy prize, and who will be on the winning side? An US program of course as there is most spectators always for US programs, so the statistical odds favour that program more that they will be excited. In general strong chessplayers are more excited about things which are not so trivial to beginners. So the way someone gets nominated is pretty important. >8. Which author will write the most lines to channel 64? Not Uri this time as his throat is too dry from writing excuses during world champs 2004. Perhaps Mike Byrne, as he'll get serious problems of course. >anthony p.s. In case crafty uses a Berger book and gets operated by Berger, the questions on the above answers are completely different. Crafty has good chances to get second of course. If you get reasonable out of book in cct7 and have a deep searching program, you win handsdown. That's why Zappa is such a favourite, using superior books from Arturo Ochoa. Even Diep which has a shallow search could win dutch open champs with an old version of it and end 3d in world champs with it. Vincent
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