Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:45:24 08/11/05
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On August 11, 2005 at 14:11:27, Andrew Williams wrote: >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 Yes. The machine we are using is being provided by AMD and is located at their development lab. We ssh in to the box... It's running Suse linux. > >>> >>>>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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