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Subject: Re: WCCC round 4 predictions

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 16:11:49 06/15/99

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On June 15, 1999 at 18:14:21, m.d.hurd wrote:

>On June 15, 1999 at 17:16:24, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On June 15, 1999 at 16:50:17, jose hernandez wrote:
>>
>>>Round 4 - June 16
>>>
>>>Games
>>
>>Time for some (completely unscientific :) predictions...
>>
>>>1 Hiarcs - Junior                       0-1
>>>2 Nimzo - Shredder                      0-1
>>>3 Fritz - Virtual_Chess_X               1-0
>>>4 Rebel - P.ConNerS                     1-0
>>>5 Cilkchess - Francesca                 1-0
>>>6 Ferret - SOS                          1-0
>>>7 DarkThought - LambChop                1-0
>>>8 MChess - Zugzwang                     1-0
>>>9 ChessTiger - Mini                     1-0
>>>10 Ikarus - Centaur          I don't know enough about
>>>11 EUGEN - Patzer            the remaining programs to
>>>12 Isichess - Arthur         make predictions
>>>13 Now - GromitChess
>>>14 RuyLopez - Diep
>>>15 Neurologic - XXXX2
>>
>>Dave
>
>
>Why do you assume junior will beat hiarcs ?

I didn't assume anything.  I made a "completely unscientific prediction." --
that is, a guess.  If I turn out to be wrong, I will not worry about it too
much. :-)

If you meant to ask why I am guessing that Junior will win, it is because:

1) I think that Hiarcs and Junior are roughly equally strong players on generic
single CPU Intel-compatible machines.
2) Junior is running on 4 processors, but Hiarcs is running on only one.
3) I think that item 2) will be more important than Hiarcs having White.

I am surprised that some programmers haven't paid too much attention to their
opening books.  It has a very big effect on the kind of game you reach.  In
particular, the use of second-rate lines is not justified.

Dave



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