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Subject: Re: Someone Remind Me To Throw my copy of Mchess 8 in the Garbbage!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:27:27 06/16/99

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On June 16, 1999 at 16:08:21, odell hall wrote:

>Hi
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>   I feel very disappointed and let down by the Sorry Results of Mchess 8 in
>WCCC99. I was sure that Mchess 8 would do better.  Can anyone explain these
>lousy results by the Former World champ?


This happens.  The competition is very strong.  And a good program can have a
bad tournament.  I only point back to hong kong in 1995 as an example where
Deep Thought lost to Fritz 2 moves out of book.  Or crafty, which is not a
terribly weak program as everyone has seen, yet at the 1997 WMCCC event it did
really badly.

It just happens, and even the best will have a blow-out tournament from time
to time... and it doesn't mean they are playing 1400 chess when it happens.
There is much more 'luck' in the game than anyone wants to admit.  And when
luck is involved, some of it _has_ to be bad...



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