Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:00:40 08/11/05
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On August 11, 2005 at 11:36:17, A. Cozzie wrote: >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. What knowledge do you have about the hardware of the participants? I predicted Zappa to win but I guessed that zappa will have similiar hardware to Junior and Shredder. If my guess was wrong then I expect Shredder and Junior to catch the first 2 places and Zappa to catch only place 3. Uri
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