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Subject: Re: CCT8 - New Entrants

Author: James Swafford

Date: 18:24:08 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 ?
>>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.

For the record, I said it first!
My prediction was:
1. Thinker
2. Rybka
3. Crafty


--
James


>
>Peter



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