Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:28:39 08/03/05
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On August 03, 2005 at 15:33:12, Joachim Rang wrote: >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 I decided not to bet about nothing but I think that the chances of zappa to win are better than 1:10 so this is not a good idea for you to bet against zappa in these conditions if someone else agree to this bet. Zappa supports parallel search and it also has professional book author to support it and it is probably improved relatively to zappa1.0. I guess it's chances is less than 50% but no program has chances of at least 50% to win WCCC. Uri
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