Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 10:46:56 02/14/05
For starters - a big congratulation to Anthong and his program Zappa. On the seeding committee, there was at least two of us that had Zappa as the top seed and based on its play, it was a well deserved seeding. To Peter Skinner - you did a great job, if not the best job ever by a tournament director of an event this noteworthy. I hope you get to run many more events. To all CCT 7 particpants and fans and especially to Bob Hyatt. I am truly sorry that I was unable to get my new box, a dual opteron 244 setup in time for this great event. For all those that pitched in ito get a "second" crafty running on late notice - large "kudos" top all of you. Lesson learned for me - do wait until the last week to get the damn box!. But is there is a sliver lining here in that many of you suggested the dual opteron over teh dual xeon and in particular , the cost effectiveness of the Opteron 244s. It is amazing to me that a box for that runs about $1500 can do 4M nps using Crafty 64 bit. To Bryan Hoffman and Eugene Namilov - thanks for both of your great efforts to get me 64 bit Craftys. Eugene, your version, compiled with latest (and unreleased) MS tools, is especially fast. Bryan, you sent me multiple versions that also perform quite well. Finally, I would be interested in replaying all of Crafty CCT 7 opponents in a "could of have been" , just for fun, scenario with the exact same time controls and conditions. If interested, please email me. Best regards, Michael Byrne
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