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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