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

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 08:05:31 11/15/00

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On November 14, 2000 at 07:46:22, Christophe Theron wrote:

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


It seems that currently they have not. I searched and got every kind of Titus
links, less the one for Virtual. Maybe is now marketed by another company?
Fernando
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>    Christophe



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