Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:12:06 08/06/05
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On August 06, 2005 at 03:50:28, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >On August 06, 2005 at 03:39:00, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 06, 2005 at 02:31:32, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >> >>>On August 05, 2005 at 21:59:39, Madhavan wrote: >>> >>>>On August 05, 2005 at 14:05:20, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >>>> >>>>>The following programs will participate: >>>>> >>>>>- Jonny >>>>>- Deep Sjeng >>>>>- Zappa >>>>>- Isichess >>>>>- Crafty >>>>>- Shredder >>>>>- Diep >>>>>- Junior >>>>>- Fute_My >>>>>- Fruit >>>>> >>>>>hmm... looks like a round robin instead of 11 round swiss. >>>>>Seems i have to fight for the 9.rank ;-( >>>>> >>>>>Cheers, >>>>>Gerd >>>> >>>>Excuse me,What is fute_my?I assume its fritz with new >>>>nick?Quest==Fritz==Fute_my? >>> >>>Not fritz - but i really don't know. >>>May be a program provided by the icelandic host - we will see. >>>Reykjavik university has a strong computer science department, and >>>Yngvi Björnnson is back from Alberta - but only a guess. >>> >>>> >>>>Fritz,ChessTiger,ProDeo,Hydra,Spike and many other programs missing? >>> >>>Donninger told something in german CSS-forum that Hydra don't plays because as >>>top favourite they only have to "lose". >> >>I do not understand that excuse. >>By that excuse Shredder should now decide also not to play because if hydra does >>not play as a top favourite they only can lose. >> >>Hydra is also not commercial so I see nothing that they can lose by >>participating in WCCC. > >If you spend "millions" of $ into a project - and you accidently draw an amateur >or open source program or with some bad luck you even don't get the title - you >might have more problems with your investors than devalue WCCC and keeping up >the legend of an unbeatable 64-headed monster and to make some cage fight >against kasparov or so. I do not see why investors will prefer to invest money in a program that escape playing competitions in WCCC because people do not want to invest money on a program that does not play but maybe I do not understand investors. Uri
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