Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Knockout Tournament (Game 10 of 20 completed in Round 1 matches)

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 00:43:51 05/03/05

Go up one level in this thread


On May 03, 2005 at 03:23:34, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 03, 2005 at 02:36:57, Ray Banks wrote:
>
>>On May 03, 2005 at 01:53:45, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>      Hi Graham
>>>      It looks like Shredder 9 is going to win
>>>      his match vs Aristarch 4.50 thus avoiding
>>>      you some trouble :-)
>>>      Kind regards
>>>      Kurt
>>
>>That is true - but Deep Fritz 8 looks likely to lose against Minotaur, and
>>Hiarcs 9 looks like losing against Yoda, and that will be two top engines
>>eliminated. Trouble perhaps ?
>
>Both Deep Fritz8 and Hiarcs9 are losing against chessmaster of Johan de koning.
>
>Saying that they lose against Mionotaur and Yoda is misleading because a lot of
>people do not know that they are personality of chessmaster and I know it only
>because of reading your previous post.
>
>
>As far as I know CM is one of the top engines(unlike Atistarch CM is not an
>amateur) and I think that CM is the favourite to win the tournament not because
>it is better but because it has more entries than every other participant.
>
>If I need to guess one participant that is going to win then I choose shredder
>but if I need to guess one programmer that is going to win then I guess Johan de
>koning.
>
>Of course both guesses cannot be right.
>
>Uri


Hi Uri,

contrary to what you say, most observant people know that Minotaur and Yoda are
CM personalities. It is clearly stated in each of my posts.
I agree that Shredder 9 is the favourite to take out the tournament, but upsets
can happen in 20 game matches.

Regards, Graham.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.