Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:38:27 09/18/05
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On September 18, 2005 at 13:59:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 18, 2005 at 12:00:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On September 18, 2005 at 10:45:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >># Name 1 2 3 4 5 P BU SB G >>1 Deep Thought II 2w1 5b0 7w1 3b1 5b1 4 13½ 11 5 >>2 Zarkov 1b0 6b1 4w1 5b= 3w1 3½ 15 9¾ 5 >>3 Star Socrates 10w1 7b1 5w1 1w0 2b0 3 12½ 5 5 >>4 Now 6w= 10b= 2b0 8w1 9b1 3 10½ 5½ 5 >>5 Mchess Pro 8b1 1w1 3b0 2w= 1w0 2½ 16½ 7¾ 5 >>6 Cray Blitz 4b= 2w0 9w1 7b0 10w1 2½ 11 4 5 >>7 Wchess 9w1 3w0 1b0 6w1 8b0 2 13½ 4½ 5 >>8 Evaluator 5w0 9b0 10w1 4b0 7w1 2 10 2½ 5 >>9 Innovation II 7b0 8w1 6b0 10b1 4w0 2 10 2½ 5 >>10 Spector 3b0 4w= 8b0 9w0 6b0 ½ 12½ 1½ 5 >> >>Zarkov from those days had no problems beating your 3 million nps Cray Blitz. >>Nor had Wchess problems beating your 3 million nps Cray Blitz. >> > >Ask John about the game. First, this was a 500K program for rounds 2-4. And >when you ask him, he'll tell you about our rather severe crash problem due to a >missing test to limit ply to 64 or less. And in a couple of cute places, we >went beyond that limit, crashed, and burned. We fixed it for the last round, >but it really didn't matter to the final results. > >But notice the issue was about deep thought, _not_ about Cray Blitz. Did you >see any of the micros coming close? (hint: round 2 was a forfeit which is why >they were paired a second time, round 2 never got started for the DT MCP game). Deep Thought was significantly better than the micro of 1995 Uri
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