Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:52:03 08/11/05
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On August 11, 2005 at 12:21:03, Andrew Williams wrote: >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. >> > >I think you underestimate Shredder (and SMK) very significantly. It's not by >coincidence that Junior and Shredder have monopolized these tournaments in >recent years. > >>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. >> > >Where did you get information about hardware? with repsect to the 15M nps, that came from me. He and I were chatting on ICC night before last while I was running the 4x875 system for testing... Anthony was observing and 15M was not the highest number we saw. :) Actually we played a couple of games during the testing (crafty and zappa)... > >>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 > >Good luck, Anthony. I hope you enjoy the tournament. > >Andrew
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