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Subject: Re: Which engines will release a CCT8 version?

Author: Tony Thomas Karippa

Date: 01:28:25 02/27/06

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On February 27, 2006 at 04:16:17, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On February 26, 2006 at 20:02:47, Tony Thomas Karippa wrote:
>
>>Rather unsatisfying results for Glaurung(I expected better),
>
>Yes, the results were not that great - but I'm still very satisfied.  I
>am more interested in finding evaluation weaknesses than in winning
>games, and from this point of view the tournament was a great
>success!  I was also happy to see that I didn't lose a single game
>because of tactical mistakes.  When using two CPUs, Glaurung is
>finally fast enough to avoid being outsearched by everybody else.
>
>>but it sure did a lot better in blitz.
>
>Yes, clear second place behind Hiarcs in the blitz in front of Rybka,
>Fruit, Junior and Spike was of course a fantastic result.  I really
>didn't expect that after scoring 1/3 in the first three rounds. :-)
>
>I still think Glaurung is better in slow games, though.  It was just
>slightly unlucky in the main tournament, and extremely lucky in
>the blitz.
>
>Tord
Tord now you need a break, you have been working too hard:-) I do not play long
time control games, way too boring for my taste, but Glaurung sure does very
well on my computer in blitz.



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