Author: stuart taylor
Date: 05:12:10 07/09/02
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On July 09, 2002 at 07:54:37, Kevin Strickland wrote: >Results >No Name Total Result Name Total > > 1 Brutus, [4] : Junior, [3.5] > 2 Sjeng, [3] 0:1 Shredder, [4] > 3 Quest, [3.5] : Diep, [3] > 4 IsiChess X, [3] 1:0 Warp, [3] > 5 XiniX, [2.5] =:= Ikarus, [3] > 6 Goliath, [2] : ParSOS, [2.5] > 7 Insomniac, [1.5] =:= Chinito, [2] > 8 NoonianChess, [1.5] : SpiderChess, [1.5] > 9 Postmodernist, [1.5] : Sharky, [0] What I never understand is why amatuer programs are sometimes the main contestants in a computer championship, but not many comercials (I mean, I don't see why the programmer himself need necesarily attend in person). And what is even more baffling is that sometimes it looks like an amatuer trounces the few comercials which are there. Here too, if not the most extreme case, but still interesting is that Brutus seems to tie only with Shredder. Junior seems to have not quite made it. I know that it's not enough games to prove anything, but from this sampling of games does it really mean that Brutus still MIGHT be with the top commercials? Atleast, doesn't it look like it might be way better than Genius 3 till 6.5 or Hiarcs 6, if not 7, 7.32 or even 8? ( If so, no wonder then that programmers sometimes give old versions as freeware. They are nowhere near compatible even with top amatuers anymore)! S.Taylor
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