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Subject: Re: Who will win at Paderborn ?

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 06:56:55 12/26/05

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On December 26, 2005 at 09:20:42, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>On December 26, 2005 at 07:28:12, Thomas Logan wrote:
>
>>On December 26, 2005 at 04:02:59, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>
>>>On December 26, 2005 at 04:00:00, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
>>>
>>>>The 15th IPCCC chmpionship will begin tomorrow in Paderborn
>>>>with Rybka, Zappa, Fruit and Shredder competing among others.
>>>>Hydra, Fritz, Junior, Hiarcs, Diep, Ktulu and Deep Sjeng will be missing.
>>>>(but who cares ...)
>>>>
>>>>What are your guesses for the final results ?
>>>>
>>>>Mine is :
>>>>
>>>>1.Zappa
>>>>2.Rybka
>>>>3.Fruit
>>>>4.Shredder
>>>>
>>>>Marc
>>>
>>>Hi Marc,
>>>
>>>here is my guess:
>>>
>>>1. Zappa
>>>2. Shredder
>>>3. Rybka
>>>4. Fruit
>>>
>>>so, you are now not giving your book to any program? Am I correct?
>>>
>>>Ciao
>>>Sandro
>>
>>Hi Sandro
>
>Hi Tom,
>
>>
>>Is there a new version of Shredder ready for Paderborn
>
>yes, I am testing it with my book against Rybka with Rybka book and the score is
>4 to 4 (8; +2, =4, -2) 50% but Shredder is ahead in game 9 even not enough to
>win yet...same hardware for both.
>
>This version is much better than Shredder 9, but we want to improve it more.

I am really glad to hear this


>
>Good to see people think Shredder is so behind, so they will prepare more
>against others!

The advantage of surprise

but if shredder 10 is much different from shredder 9 there is no way to prepare
for it anyway
>>
>>Is the hardware of Zappa a bit too much to overcome
>
>Yes, this is why to me Zappa has the best chances...

Yeah I think so also

but we shall see

Good luck

Tom



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