Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:28:32 08/25/00
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On August 25, 2000 at 16:03:19, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >Hi ERIQ, > >>All hail the new King !! > >Sorry to rain on your parade -- but "Crafty" never won >any official ICCA amateur champion title. > >"Ferret" won the last official amateur title in Paris, >October 1997. They didn't award that title in 1997. I can't even remember noticing that my program was top amateur in that tournament. If they awarded it, I appear to be missing a trophy. In 1995 my program won it though, tied with Nimzo. That trophy I do have. >Thereafter, AFAIK, the ICCA decided to abandon the flood >of different WMCC titles (amateur, professional, overall) >in favour of awarding only one, namely the overall title. > >Hence, no amateur and professional WMCC titles were >presented during the 1999 championship in Paderborn. >Otherwise, "DarkThought" would have earned the amateur >microcomputer title there -- bad luck for us ... :-( > >Hence, the ICCA's apparent change of course regarding the >reinstallment of the flood of titles this year in London >was quite another surprise for some of us. > >----- > >But let's switch from the past to the present. Best wishes >and hearty congratulations to the authors of the new >champions, Stefan and James -- good work, well done !!! Likewise. bruce > >----- > >=Ernst= > >P.S. >WWW pages of "DarkThought" at http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/.
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