Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 13:56:18 12/18/01
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On December 18, 2001 at 13:24:53, Joshua Lee wrote: >I am interested in this Tournament but there are a few problems i think that >without starting with the weakest programs that still run on on the latest >operating system would be more interesting now i am sure Rebel will kill >Chessmaster 2000 but if these programs were added along with different Winboard >programs then atleast better estimation would be given to those people who wish >to start with the weakest program and see if they can beat it and go up the list > well it would be better for them. sorry. but i don't understand your critics. in the tournament we have old, well known programs like wchess, genius, even socrates and mchess. we have winboard programs: zarkov, crafty, goliath, pharaon, yace ... we have strongest and latest programs, nimzo8, fritz7, century, shredder, gambit-tiger, junior... and we have classic and standard programs that should never be forgotten, cstal, comet, patzer, chessmaster, gandalf. all these programs play surprising chess. each round has its own surprise. many interesting information has been played out. we see them rank in a long and fair tournament. even to me, there have been plenty of things i would have never expected. e.g. in the last rounds crafty surprised me. it seems this new crafty is very strong. we will see how this ends. i got all my expectations fullfilled. of course, this whole tournament costs time, power and energy. but - from my point of view, and i am doing those kind of tournaments, for a long time, its worth the work. i do the tournament for my own pleasure. and i like the idea that professional chess players replay and comment the games. i like to replay the games i have seen on my own, and like to read the comments of the strong chess players. and i do hope the programmers of the programs who participate do enjoy this too.
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