Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:55:50 01/17/01
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On January 16, 2001 at 21:09:12, John Wentworth wrote: >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. Those were fun days. I think that Belle is now in the Smithsonian as an exhibit, so it won't play again probably. Cray Blitz is still around, but I doubt it will ever play again either. I think that once we get singular extensions working in Crafty, it will pretty well close the final gap between it and Cray Blitz, making trying to find a Cray a waste of time...
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