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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