Author: Adam Oellermann
Date: 22:50:21 07/31/01
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On August 01, 2001 at 01:39:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >On August 01, 2001 at 01:32:51, Christophe Theron wrote: >[snip] > >>That sounds interesting. > >I think France already has the national championship done (at least I have seen >French Engine contests that were high profile.) > >Is my understanding of the French contest correct, or are those contests only >informal? > >France also has a surprising number of very strong engines: >Chess Tiger & Gambit Tiger >AnMon >The Crazy Bishop >Zchess (got a new name now, but I forgot what it is) >Capture (I only see this one in the French contest listings) >Chess Wizard >BB Chess > >(probably forgetting some others). > >I think the Italians, Australains, Spanish and Dutch also have national >championships of sorts. I think the idea of having national tournaments is an excellent way of getting more dialogue between chess programmers living in a particular country. The only problem I see as a *qualifier* for a world championship is that many of the strongest engines would necessarily be excluded, as some countries play host to more than on top engine. What about an ongoing World Championship qualification cycle like the Candidates tournaments FIDE used to do, only shorter? That way, the reigning champ and challenger can play a longer match, rather than having to decide the championship via a tournament with very few games between each engine. -Adam
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