Hans decided to post today's update in a new thread, he has been drinking
So for those of you following this thread here it is:
25-9
The breakfast in the hotel is really good. So good that there was a waitingline to get in this morning. I invited one of the other dutch participants to sit with me, so I wouldn't have a table for 2 just for myself. Tournament director Jaap van den Herik pulled up a chair and joined another table for 2 where two people were already sitting. The staff first wanted to take him to an empty table, but when Jaap insisted, they brought the empty table to him. Since there was a shortage of drinks in the venue, I did some shoppings. A red bull, a coke, plain water and a can of pineapplejuice. Failed to see the "4% alc" sign. Luckily I had the redbull antidote, but I had a hard time staying awake during the second round. Round 1 paired Rybka to Darmenios, the top Polish program. The bad news is that the point stayed in Poland. The good news is that Rybka programmer Vasik Rajlich also lives in Poland. Darmenios programmer Dariusz Czechowski just knows the rules, but with only a simple evaluationfunction, he created a very fast searcher on just one
core. But not fast enough to Have Rybka worried. I had lots of free time before round 2, which I spent on translating my diary to dutch for the computermagazine. I thought game 2 would be easy as well, but Thinker (by Kerwin Medina) crushed Junior in the first round and proved to be a hard 4-core nut to crack. But crack it did. Thinker had some crashes in the first round, so I told Amir Ban (Junior) that he should have supported Jonny (you crash, you lose) during the playersmeeting. For a while I thought Rybka would lead the field alone, but Rondo (Zappa) managed to win a drawish looking endgame against Jonny on 800-cores! Most of his cores seemed to be busy finding the small chessboard on the huge monitor. At 18:00 the first round of the softwaretournament started. But since Rybka regretfully isn't participating, I decided to go back to the hotel, take a 2 hour nap, eat the sweet breads and croissant that I took from the breakfastroom instead of having dinner and work some more on the computer.
