Just ONE good reason to explain Zappa victory

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Just ONE good reason to explain Zappa victory

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He got even better than Rybka.
Is it so impossible that other reasons must be talked about?

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Re: Just ONE good reason to explain Zappa victory

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I think it got on the level of Rybka on 8 cores, with help from the book, and in these time controls. And that it's winning because the operators of Rybka went overconfident, they thought they had an easy win, and made one error after another:

"Stuck on stupid" at Rybka's forum
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