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Subject: Re: Macintosh chess engine tournament (ExaChess) progress

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 23:14:41 12/26/00

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On December 27, 2000 at 01:50:03, Richard A. Fowell wrote:

>I've completed most of the games in my ExaChess tournament.
>
>Sigma Chess is doing the best, so far
>(though that might change if I can get Crafty going).
>
>I'll  post the games on a web site in a while.
>
>Time control is 5 seconds/move, 100 games per pairing.
>In a couple of cases, I played more than 100
>games - in these cases I'm using the first 100 games for scoring.
>
>The two engines I haven't started matches with yet are
>Crafty (since I need to configure it) and ZZZZZZ (since I haven't had any luck
>getting it to play).
>
>
>Programs:
>
>Sigma Chess 5.1.3      (modified from 5.1.2 to remove "EP" indicator from en
>passant capture)
>MacChess 4.0e             (standard distibution, except for using MacChess 5.0
>opening book)
>Screamer B56               (modified from released distribution to adhere to
>strict time limits)
>Vanessa Chess 2.01x   (modified from released distribution to adhere to strict
>time limits)
>
>         | Sigma       | MacChess       Screamer     Vanessa
>---------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
>Sigma    | XXXXXXXXXXX   61  - 39      78   - 22     90.5 - 9.5
>MacChess | XXXXXXXXXXX   XXXXXXXXXXX   67.5 - 32.5   ??????????
>Screamer | XXXXXXXXXXX   XXXXXXXXXXX  XXXXXXXXXXX    78   - 23
>
>Richard A. Fowell (rafowell@aol.com)

Just out of curiosity, is there currently a practical way to interface two Macs
together and play Mac Chess programs against eachother fro separate computers?

Pete



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