Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:46:20 08/12/05
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On August 12, 2005 at 14:31:00, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >On August 12, 2005 at 13:29:01, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 12, 2005 at 13:17:18, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >> >>>Wow - great! >>>Congratulations to Volker Böhm und Ralf Schäfer for winning the first >>>Chess960-WM with Spike! Volker and Ralf - now you are engaged to come to >>>Iceland. It's such a great country - you will enjoy it so much. >>> >>>Congrats to Johannes Zwanzger with Jonny and Tord Romstad with Glaurung for the >>>silver and bronce medal. Johannes, see you tomorrow. Tord, finishing ahead of >>>Shredder commits you to come Iceland as well, specially as a Skandinavian! >>> >>>Just arrived from a four hours wale-watching tour in Reykjavik. Saw a lot of >>>Mink-wales very near the boat - really incredible. While yestersday was cold and >>>a bit rainy, today is about 20 degrees and sunny. BB44 has a very nice >>>whirl-pool outside with warm sulfured water - absolutely relaxing. >>> >>>So come on guys, enter the airplane from Frankfurt (Icelandair) or >>>Frankfurt-Hahn and come to Reykjavik. >>> >>>Cheers, >>>Gerd >> >>I am surprised to read that shredder did not win the first place and even did >>not win the third place. >>I thought that it used at least 4 processors and that it was also significantly >>better than the opponents with one processor(at least if we talk about Glaurung) >>but I know nothing about the event. >> >>Can you explain what happened? >> >>Did shredder play significantly weaker than the public version or maybe it was a >>swiss luck of Glaurung and Shredder played significantly stronger opponents? >> >>Can you give us a table of the results or a link to table of the result. >>I am not interested in games without normal castling rights(there is enough >>normal chess games) but I am interested in the results. >> >>Uri > > >Hi Uri, > >here is the final standing from the german site: >http://www.computerschach.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=304&Itemid=1 > >Rang Teilnehmer S R V Punkte Buchh. Pkt.Sum. >1 Spike 5 1 1 5,5 31,5 25,5 >2 Jonny 5 1 1 5,5 28,0 20,5 >3 Glaurung 4 2 1 5,0 29,5 18,5 >4 Shredder 5 0 2 5,0 29,0 21,0 >5 Ikarus 4 1 2 4,5 26,0 18,0 >6 List 4 1 2 4,5 26,0 16,0 >7 Pharaon 4 0 3 4,0 29,5 19,0 >8 DeepSjeng 3 2 2 4,0 27,5 16,0 >9 TheBaron 4 0 3 4,0 27,0 17,0 >10 Quark 3 1 3 3,5 25,0 13,5 >11 XiniX 3 1 3 3,5 18,5 9,0 >12 parSOS 3 0 4 3,0 28,5 16,0 >13 Ant960 2 2 3 3,0 24,5 12,5 >14 Nexus 2 2 3 3,0 22,5 10,5 >15 AICE 3 0 4 3,0 21,0 13,0 >16 Herrmann 3 0 4 3,0 21,0 11,0 >17 Patzer 3 0 4 3,0 19,0 10,0 >18 Homer 2 0 5 2,0 19,0 7,0 >19 Ayito 1 0 6 1,0 18,5 6,0 > >Gerd I did not know that it was only 7 rounds. It helps to explain shredder's failure(and I see that 5 out of 7 are enough even not to win third place). I thought that there are at least 9 rounds. It seems that WCCC in standard chess is more serious tournament than WCCC in FRC. I wonder which program beated shredder except spike. Uri
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