Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 11:51:54 02/23/06
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On February 23, 2006 at 14:48:51, Marc Lacrosse wrote: >Hi Peter, > >Would you please let us know why you put Fruit in third place on your entrry >list for CCT8 _behind_ ThinkerX ? >Do you have data according which Thinker is presently stronger than Fruit ? >As far as I know Fruit finished clearly ahead of Thinker 5.0b 64 in WBEC 11 >which is the only recent tournament where both played. > >OK, this is not important at all for the final result result of CCT8 as the >large number of rounds should put the best one in the lead at the end, but I >just would like to know wether you have something significant regarding recent >evolution of Thinker which is quite a mysterious and seemingly very strong >program. > >Marc Simply I used the results from Thinker's ICC which is incredibly strong on the hardware it will be using. I would have seeded it #1 but Rybka has joined and you can only imagine the stir that would have caused if I seeded Thinker higher. In watching hundreds of games by Thinker, I could say it is the strongest program out there. I am even going out on a limb and saying I think it will win CCT8. Peter
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