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Subject: Re: CCT8 - New Entrants

Author: Marc Lacrosse

Date: 12:11:26 02/23/06

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On February 23, 2006 at 14:51:54, Peter Skinner wrote:

>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 ?

>
>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.

Are you sure ?
There are computers with a higher ranking in the standard time control list on
ICC...
(ChessthinkerX is presently 7th out of 5346)

Marc



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