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Subject: Re: Deep Blue is soooooooo AMERICAN

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:47:03 01/16/01

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On January 16, 2001 at 17:30:51, John Wentworth wrote:

>On January 15, 2001 at 22:55:24, Wayde Beasley wrote:
>
>>I bought Fritz the other day and have been playing with it.  Slowly, surely, it
>>comes upon me a kind of gestalt experience: FRITZ IS SOOOOOOO GERMAN!
>>
>>Whereas most other non-German engines strive for some elegance, this totally
>>German approach goes for broke in pure tactical brilliance, pure calculational
>>mastery.
>
>To bad it doesn't exist anymore  :(
>What programs would be on an American team, other than Crafty ?


We have our share...  Crafty...  Ferret...  Gnuchess...  Wchess...
                      Zarkov...  Mchess Pro...  The various versions
                      of Socrates at MIT...  HiTech...  Cray Blitz if
                      we tried hard...

Etc. I am sure I missed several.



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