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Subject: Re: WCCC Guessing Game

Author: A. Cozzie

Date: 15:22:24 08/11/05

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On August 11, 2005 at 18:15:23, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On August 11, 2005 at 14:36:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On August 11, 2005 at 14:05:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>I've never seen a beginner win an event, so in that respect
>>never a non-favourite was the 'lucky' winner.
>>
>>This is just a lame excuse yours to apology for possible disaster.
>>
>>Personally i give crafty 0%, simply because last 16 years the winner of
>>the world championship has been a program with the machine local at
>>the tournament site.
>
>Personally I would give Crafty betters odds to win than Diep.
>
>Nothing personal, but Crafty is simply a more polished program and will be
>running on bigger hardware. It will also have Peter Berger at the controls, and
>everyone knows how good he is.
>
>I don't think he is giving an excuse at all. He is stating that if a top
>favorite were to lose to a lower program, it's chances of winning go down
>drastically. If a lower rated program were to knock off a top seed, it's chances
>of finishing higher increase.
>
>That is logic... not excuses.
>
>Robert has a few World Titles to his credit. How many do you have again? Oh
>that's right.. 0
>
>Peter

Quite frankly, I find the Hyatt-Diepeveen feud funny enough (I can appreciate a
good flame, and Bob and Vincent are both pretty good flamers) without adding my
own fuel to the fire :)

anthony



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