Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 08:19:45 01/22/01
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On January 22, 2001 at 10:55:12, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 22, 2001 at 09:16:35, David Wilke wrote: > >>I am wondering why Nimzo,Junior,Tiger,Gambit Tiger, and some others are not >>participating. > > >The reason is that all these programs are not from germany Why should this be a reason ? It's an International tournament and participants from foreign countries are cordially invited. >14 out of 18 programs are from germany(I think that it shouyld be 13 because >Fritz is from netharland but >for some reason that I do not understand it is claimed that Fritz is from >germany) No doubt that Frans Morsch from Netherlands is the engine author. Nevertheless I know that there are some contributions by Mathias Feist from ChessBase (GUI, and some contribution to the evaluation routines). So if you are benevolent you could say, it's a Dutch-German co-operation. (btw, who cares for nationalities ?) > >see http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~IPCCC/ > >I am not going to be surprised if germany is going to win this tournament. It's an International tourney, and therefore I regret that some of the foreigners have withdrawn or are about to withdraw, no matter if they are TOP profis or amateurs. Sorry for Tony ! I hope that he'll be alright soon. Uli > > > >> >>Due to this, will the eventual winner have doubts cast as to the strength of the >>participants there, and the strength of the one not there. >> >>In last year's WMCC tournament, Rebel Tiger, and Rebel 3.0 tied for third. > > >IPCCC is not WMCCC and some programs never played in IPCCC tournaments(for >example I do not remember Junior in IPCCC tournament when it played in all WMCCC >tournaments that I remember). Junior had been there in the last tournament; however it wasn't operated by the authors but by a kind of "layman". Chessbase wasn't really satisfied with him. > >Uri
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