Author: Jim Bodkins
Date: 13:24:59 01/10/04
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On January 10, 2004 at 12:39:07, Rick Rice wrote: >I was browsing the website for the North American Computer Chess Association - >http://homepage.mac.com/chessnotation/events.html > >.. where I came across an event to be held in November 2004 - Annual Beat Europe >Computer Chess Competition . It started me thinking if there were even any >quality American chess programs to match European chess programs, apart from >Crafty. I was surprised to find quite a few: > >1 : USA ( 37 ) >Alex, Amateur, Arasan, Bace, Beaches, Betsy, BigBook, Chad's Chess, ChessRikus, >Crafty, DChess, DeepTrouble, Dorky, DrunkenMaster, EXchess, Fimbulwinter, >Gerbil, GnuChess 4, GnuChess 5, Horizon, Jester, Kace, LTK, NoonianChess, >Parrot, Plywood, Pooky, Puslar, ROBOKewlper, Simontacchi, SlowChess, SSEChess, >Storm, Tristram, TSCP, Usurper, Zotron. > >.... you could browse those from other countries at this site - >http://vigo.altervista.org/Team_WOCT-2.htm#USA > >This should be quite interesting then, if the event were to go ahead on November >4. I think the Europeans will hold upper hand, with Ruffian, Deep Sjeng, Delfi, >Gromit, Comet etc. They seem to be quite ahead of their American counterparts. > >Cheers, >Rick The US doesnt play chess really. USCF has 90,000 members out of 1/3 billion people and just went bankrupt (over about $300,000 - chump change to a pro basketball player) and had to sell its store to an english firm. Most of the top US players (USCF) are immigrants not native. I'm a native American, so dont get mad. We play baseball not chess. Chess isnt culturally a part of the US at all. People (Garry) come here mainly because of money not chess. Chess software doesnt interest most programmers in my experience. OS's, databases etc do. The US will get hammered, but the guys will probably have fun anyway. ... oh, and we do Mars missions. :)
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