Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 11:11:27 08/11/05
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On August 11, 2005 at 13:52:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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)... > > I see. Is Peter going to connect to your hardware remotely for Crafty? Good luck to you too of course! Andrew >> >>>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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