Author: Dadi Jonsson
Date: 17:28:45 04/15/01
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On April 15, 2001 at 18:44:06, Bertil Eklund wrote: >- We invited 4 programs: DB and the Deeps of Fritz, Shredder and Junior. >"We" is BGN and Enrique Irazoqui, with Bertil Eklund as consultant. > >- DB is obvious. Fritz has been leading everything in computer chess, short >of a Swiss open of 7 rounds that receives the name "world championship". >Shredder is strong and got the 2 last titles, whatever they mean, although >it never topped the SSDF list, never won long tournaments. Junior is also >strong, was first in the SSDF list about a year ago, won some long >tournaments, achieved a PR of 2702 last year in Dortmund. The rest is either >not strong enough or not SMP ready, which means they don't have a chance and >their inclusion would only increase randomness. > I have quietly been watching CCC on and off for some time now. I own many different chess programs and enjoy each and every one of them, including the programs mentioned above, the Tigers etc. I must say that I was a bit surprised to see a very interesting competition being organized where a consultant of the organizers (or so it says in the above message) is obviously biased against one of the contestants (see the snippet above from the original message). My impression from the many messages I have read here is that the authors of all the programs mentioned above are playing a fair game and would like this competition to be planned in such a way that organizational issues would not cast any doubt on the outcome. Since I am jumping into the discussion at this point I may have missed some important material about this competition that was posted earlier. If so I am sorry, but reading the above message in isolation from what may have happened before I think it was asking for a response.
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