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Subject: Re: DCCC 25th : a few comments from a Fruit's friend.

Author: Zheng Zhixian

Date: 15:04:48 11/13/05

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On November 13, 2005 at 08:51:01, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 13, 2005 at 08:36:33, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>I see no surprise here.
>>Reason: Hardware.
>>
>>I don't know what hardware is used in Leiden, but I suspect that some of the
>>opponents of Fruit use powerful Dual or Quad systems.
>>Fruit is a great engine, and it may dominate the home users tournaments, but in
>>the _big_ official tourneys againts the multi-threaded engines. Same goes for
>>Hiarcs10 that performed unexpectedly low in the recent CCT- Blitz tournament.
>>Great engines, but cannot cope with the hardware dissadvantage.
>>
>>I think the time for a single threaded program winning those tourneys is comming
>>to an end.
>>
>>M2C
>>- Andy
>
>do not be sure about it.
>
>Fruit won second place in WCCC and shared first place in the CCT blitz
>tournament inspite of hardware disadvantage relative to part of the opponents.
>

Hmm I see that fruit ended up  2nd unshared. So I think the correct answer is,
you guys were speculating too soon. 6th rounds in a 11th swiss and you start
talking about disappointing?? LOL




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