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Subject: Re: Scorpio 1.5 is very strong!

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 02:10:53 08/24/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 06:07:08, Günther Simon wrote:

>On August 23, 2005 at 05:11:34, Daniel Shawul wrote:
>
>>On August 22, 2005 at 22:21:13, Will Singleton wrote:
>>
>>>On August 22, 2005 at 17:23:47, Ómar Skúlason wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all!
>>>>
>>>>Yet another very strong free engine. I am now running it against Spike 1.0
>>>>in some blitz games and Scorpio is not loosing.
>>>>There is no end to this feast.
>>>>Ómar.
>>>
>>>Yes, I notice it's doing well on ICC.  Beats super-crafty handily.  Does ok
>>>against shredder.  Source available, I wonder if anyone has examined it.
>>>
>>>Will
>>
>>Scorpio is my new open source engine. Already realesed 5 versions.
>>I don't know if it is being run on ICC. May be you are confusing it with
>>some other engine like for example the "scorpion" personality of chessmaster.
>>Daniel
>
>I don't find any good player in ICC at all, whose name starts
>with Scorpio... and I really tried all variations after 'Scorpio...'
>and 'Scorpion...' also with underscores and minus signs ;)
>
>...except someone called Scorpion-sting
>(his ratings look more like those of a former cheater)
>
>              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>Blitz           2530       1708  1417   291  3416   2730 (14-Nov-2004)
>5-minute        2174  [8]   181   135    32   348   2315 (17-Nov-2004)
>1-minute        1888  [8]   239   243    33   515   2174 (23-May-2005)
>
>1: Hockey night in Canada is back!
>2: Toronto, Ontario
>3: I am a proud Canadian
>
>Guenther


Ok, it apparently was running under an account called "Instant," which seems to
be running Toga now.  Since that account changes programs, it's likely the
history I was looking at didn't correspond to Scorpio games.



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