Author: A. Cozzie
Date: 08:36:17 08/11/05
Well I have taken my holiday from CCC to improve my program, but I'm flying out tomorrow and not going to make any big changes today, so its just a matter of packing up, and I have some free time to speculate. Quite frankly I think guessing who is going to score what in the WCCC might be more fun than playing with it, and unlike boxing programs can't use you ranking them poorly as motivation. So here goes: 1. I'm predicting Junior to repeat. No one tests against Junior - they all test against Shredder. 2. I'm predicting this is the year that Shredder finally falls into the middle of the pack. Shredder simply hasn't improved since 7.04. 7.04 was a great engine, but the rest of the world has caught up with him. In addition, Fruit is joining, and Fruit is hell for Shredder. 3. I'm predicting Crafty and Diep both do pretty well, simply by virtue of hardware. 15M nps is nothing to write off easily, and Peter Berger with his blood contract with the devil will again get Crafty positions where it reacts well. On Diep's side, he might finally get a decent search depth, which has been Diep's achilles heel since time immemorial. 4. I'm predicting Fruit only finishes in the middle of the pack. Fruit is a strong program, but it isn't parallel and my prediction is that it gets killed in the opening book at least 3 or 4 games and loses before it computes its first instruction. 5. As for myself, my goal is to get 3rd. I'll be disappointed if Zappa finishes less than 5th, but I'm prepared for that :) anthony
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