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Subject: Re: IPCCC 2001 and non-participants

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foreigners have withdrawn or are about to withdraw, no matter if they are TOP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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