Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:40:12 08/19/05
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On August 19, 2005 at 11:14:12, Zheng Zhixian wrote: >On August 19, 2005 at 09:21:10, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 19, 2005 at 00:32:52, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On August 19, 2005 at 00:20:53, Madhavan wrote: >>> >>>>I posted the prediction of curious matches just below,no one took up the >>>>challenge,what are they afraid of?ofcourse,I know that p[rogrammers won 't >>>>predict anything,if they did it would be an insult!Vincent even didn't >>>>predict,thanks goodness :) >>>> >>>>Predict the results here,Uri or anyone who would take up the challenge >>>>Peter Skinner? >>>> >>>>this is just a challenge,don't go shy or don't say you aren't smart. >>>> >>>>Round 7 >>>> >>>>Crafty - Fute_MT 1-0 >>>>Shredder - Jonny 1-0 >>>>IsiChess MMX - The Baron 0-1 >>>>Diep - Fruit 0-1 >>>>The Crazy Bishop - Deep Sjeng 0-1 >>>>Zappa - Deep Junior 0-1 >>>> >>> >>> >>>>Round 8 >>>> >>>>Fute_MT - Diep 0-1 >>>>Jonny - Crafty 0-1 >>>>The Baron - Shredder 0-1 >>>>Zappa - IsiChess MMX 1-0 >>>>Fruit - The Crazy Bishop 1-0 >>>>Deep Junior - Deep Sjeng 0-1 >>>> >>>> >>> >>>These two rounds are too easy to predict :-) >> >>At least round 7 was not easy to predict. >>Nobody predicted zappa to beat Junior. > >I came pretty close only missing Zappa-DJ where I predicted a draw, but got the >rest right. In any case I expect Zappa to lose the last game to Isichess then. >But it still ends world champion. > >> >>I thought that it may happen but saw that other people like Junior and for some >>reason think that it is favourite to win and not zappa. > >I personally thought that Zappa would at least get a draw espically given the >advantage of the white pieces and might even win if DJ overpressed, but with >zappa leading at this stage, I thought Anthony would try for a drawish line to >play safe. > >Zappa is very underestimated despite good results in real tournaments. People >only judge it by the public versions they test, but in the hands of its author, >private zappa is very very tough. When I saw it leading after the first day, I >knew it had good chances to win it all despite some talk about it having yet to >met the strong opponents. Note that I predicted that zappa will be the champion even before the tournament. I think that I will need to change prediction for the last 2 rounds of Junior and it will only draw against fruit and lose against shredder. I do not know why people told me that Junior is strong and it certainly seemed weak based on the game against the american programs Crafty and Zappa. I do not understand 25...b5 of Junior in the game against zappa and even free fruit2.1 plays better there. I also think that the fact that amir does not fix obvious bugs in Junior when Junior can see mates in stalemate position is a sign of weakness. Uri
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