Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 04:01:00 06/16/99
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On June 16, 1999 at 04:34:36, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >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 I am totally interested too. nothing against it, just a passing thought I had. And yes I think the King engine was a HUGE loss for this match :) It would have kicked butt.
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