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Subject: Re: WCCC participants

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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