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Subject: Re: IPCCC 2001 and non-participants

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:52:52 01/22/01

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On January 22, 2001 at 11:19:45, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>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.


It is a practical reason.
The tournament is always in germany so practically many programs that are not
from germany do not play.

>
>>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
>?)

People care(otherwise they would not mention the nationality of the programs).

Uri



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