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Subject: Re: "The WCCC is too few rounds, it's all about luck." - almost poll tim

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 12:33:12 08/03/05

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On August 03, 2005 at 07:10:52, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 02, 2005 at 19:00:08, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>On August 02, 2005 at 17:55:38, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>A few corrections:
>>
>>>Winners of the last 10 years:
>>>
>>>1994: -
>>>1995: MChess Pro/Fritz (MChess was WMCCC btw) ( changed)
>>>1996: Shredder
>>>1997: Junior
>>>1998: -
>>>1999: Shredder (changed)
>>>2000: Shredder
>>>2001: Junior/Shredder ( that was the one with the silly rules, changed)
>>>2002: Junior
>>>2003: Shredder
>>>2004: Junior
>>>
>>>Clearly a very random looking list :-)
>>
>>Looks even worse, doesn't it ? Since 1996 it has *only* been Shredder and
>>Junior. And yes, a random list should look different - they just rock.
>>
>>Some of these were WMCCCs of course. WCCCs should be
>>
>>1995 Fritz
>>1999 Shredder
>>2002 Junior
>>2003 Shredder
>>2004 Junior
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>I would hold a poll now, but unfortunately there is no participant list out yet.
>>>
>>
>>Ehm - well, this opens a completely different topic ..
>>
>>So far:
>>Junior
>>Crafty
>>Shredder
>>Diep
>>Deep Sjeng
>>Jonny
>>Isichess
>>My_fute
>>Zappa
>>
>>Maybe: Fruit and Chess Tiger
>>
>>Junior and Shredder again look like fine bets of course, every year less dare to
>>even challenge them ,and Hydra chickened out , same as Fritz for the first time
>>- I just hope that the maybes take part to improve competition.
>>
>>Peter
>
>My guess is that zappa will win the competition this time.
>
>Uri


I will offer you a good quote: 1:10

You bet 10 Dollars that Zappa wins and you get 100 from me if it does. If it
does not I get your 10 bucks.

What do you say?

regards Joachim



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