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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger wins Millennium tournament

Author: Chessfun

Date: 05:52:40 12/31/99

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On December 31, 1999 at 04:05:10, Jeroen Noomen wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>Just completed my own millennium tournament. Chess Tiger 12.0 won it,
>by beating Rebel Century in the final by 3,5-2,5.
>
>For all details, comments and the games in PGN, watch www.rebel.nl.
>I have analysed all the games from the final. Both programs showed
>interesting chess, Tiger being the deserved winner. Still, I was
>impressed by Rebel's fighting spirit. See for yourself!
>
>Best regards, Jeroen Noomen

It is a shame you did not use the equal hardware idea you used in the final in
the other rounds. Using the AMD K6-2 500 Mhz on both rebel programs in the
semi-finals and first round while the opponents had the 200 mhz mmx machines
only leaves the whole tournament open to critique.

The fact that you choose to use the Rebel programs on the faster hardware and
not do that in another way, such as even tossing a coin.

Also the statement:
"Of course I had to choose which programs would play on the faster machine.
Two of them were out the question for me: My two heroes Rebel and Chess
Tiger."
Is at first glace misleading IMHO since to me it seems that the statement
implies that Rebel and Chess Tiger would NOT get the faster machine, when in
fact they did.

All in all seems the King 2.54 performed as good as anyone losing only after
tie-break on the slower hardware.
Thanks.



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