Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 01:34:36 06/16/99
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On June 16, 1999 at 00:06:14, Micheal Cummings wrote: >After seeing the current results, and when comparing them to say the SSDF. Can >someone tell me other than getting a group of guys together and playing chess >with computers, what really the winner of this tourny will get out of it other >than a title. > >Nothing against Shredder for example, (I have Shredder2), but if it wins, I >would not think that it is better than the rest and would feel a little let down >if it did win, cause really I do not think it deserves to be caused world >champion. > >Just my opinion, what do other thinks about this. I am not picking on any one >program, as it is early, and I have nothing against the programs or people. But >with so few games I wonder what really the point of playing is, apart from fun. >and to let the people with multi processor compute come out and have some fun Mike, You're probably peeved like I am that the King ver 3.x did not play in the tournament. Mindscape probably did this for a reason. Even if the King came in at third place it would still be pretty good but not the champion. Then again with that lousy opening book unless Johann DeKoning improved it, it would not stand a snowballs' chance in hell against what I have seen at this really high level event. We will see on the last day how good the top programs are against human competition. I, like the majority of the CCC find this WCCC99 to be exhilarating. Tim Frohlick
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