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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