Author: Chessfun
Date: 18:13:21 04/15/01
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On April 15, 2001 at 20:28:45, Dadi Jonsson wrote: >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. That is just the way you choose to read the snippet. It isn't how I read it. Bertil posted his opinion already here; http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?163641 Sarah.
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