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Subject: Re: What is the rating of Virtual Chess II ?

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 04:46:58 11/14/00

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On November 14, 2000 at 02:11:35, pavel wrote:

>On November 13, 2000 at 17:06:24, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 13, 2000 at 02:42:01, Lonnie Cook wrote:
>>
>>>On November 13, 2000 at 02:21:51, Didzis Cirulis wrote:
>>>
>>>>Or what could it be compared to other programs?
>>>>It plays a good chess on my Celeron 500.  Now playing a 30 min game vs Gambit
>>>>Tiger...
>>>
>>>It can play a really great game or it can bomb, it definitely has some GUI bugs
>>>and its navigation through is awkward, no learning abilties and no apparent
>>>amipulation of the opening book, I always liked its style though
>>>>
>>>>Didzis
>>
>>
>>
>>Yes, Virtual Chess II is a very strong french chess program.
>>
>>Sadly, it has not been updated since 1997 (IIRC), and stopped to participate in
>>the french championship that year.
>>
>>It had regularly won the french championship before it stopped participating.
>>
>>I think the authors (Marc-François Baudot and Jean-Christophe Weill) are still
>>working on it. Marc-François participated with Virtual Chess in the WCCC 99
>>(Paderborn).
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>do they have any webpages?
>
>pavs



The program is distributed by the french video games company "Titus". I cannot
imagine that they don't have a web page.



    Christophe



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