Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:17:46 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. > >>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 >?) there is little doubt about the engine, but i consider the way it plays at this tournament more Austrian as dutch or german. The company who produces it is however german so commercially seen very smart to call it german. As you know i didn't complain either when i got a german flag one of the previous IPCCC tournaments :) >> >>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foreigners have withdrawn or are about to withdraw, no matter if they are TOP 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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