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Subject: Re: Deep Blue is soooooooo AMERICAN

Author: John Wentworth

Date: 18:09:12 01/16/01

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On January 16, 2001 at 18:47:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

That would be cool, I would love to see a Cray Blitz make a come back, maybe a
renew the rivalry with Belle.



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