Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:32:38 02/23/05
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On February 23, 2005 at 11:57:46, Peter Skinner wrote: >On February 23, 2005 at 11:55:11, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I am not sure if they lied >>Another possibilty is that they thought to play in the IPCCC and changed their >>mind later. >> >>Uri > >No. I am pretty damn sure I was out right lied to. The only way you can know that for sure is if they say it. Paderborn is also not as important to them as WMCCC. And they may not have known Hydra was going to show up. Once Hydra was entered, the chances for victory plummet. Shredder entered also. Now the chance to win is even lower. Those are clearly the big, tough guys on the block. They only will enter any chess contest if they think that they have a fairly good chance to win (e.g at least 15% chance). No commercial program is going to enter a contest that they are sure they will lose (unless they have a lot of guts -- which is not impossible). For the most part, they will beg off of those contests until they find one more to their liking.
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