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Subject: Re: Paderborn 2005 Round 4 - all results

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 01:33:11 12/29/05

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On December 28, 2005 at 20:24:53, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi Djordje,
>
>>> one of the interesting things is IMO the really high drawing-rate. And it
>>> would be even higher if Zappa-Fruit would have the correct result - a draw.
>>> The last few computer events had a quite low drawing rate and now this
>>> looks nearly like a grandmaster tourney. (Btw. maybe it is so far the
>>> tournament with the highest overall strength of the participants...
>>> impressive)
>
>> yes, I agree.  I think that this year's Paderborn line-up is stronger than
>> the WCCC in Iceland.
>
>> How's the current human killer, your Quark?
>
>oh weeh... I really haven't done much... The last thing was, that I failed in
>finding a way to use history pruning in Quark in a way that it get's stronger
>from it. Therefor I am a bit unmotivated currently, but that can change... You
>know, they are all so extremely strong and I fear I will not get nearer to them
>until I spend some hundreds of hours in testing and programming. And I don't
>know where I should get the time for it. And it's well possible that this
>wouldn't be enough - simply the greater genius are at work... :)
>
>Greets, Thomas


... which shouldn't be enough to stop you making an even more fearsome Quark who
plays only humans, and add a couple of more tricks there.  Right?  I was very
much impressed by its play against strong guys on the Playchess server.

regards,

Djordje



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