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Subject: Re: 10th World Computer Chess Championship - Round 6 - Early Results

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 05:42:14 07/09/02

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On July 09, 2002 at 08:18:35, Peter Berger wrote:

>On July 09, 2002 at 08:12:10, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Brutus isn't really an amateur program. It is a professional project by Chrilly
>Donninger, programmer of Nimzo, using special hardware, payed by ChessBase . If
>it is successful it will become availlable for sale later.
>
>Here are some details:
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=221

Oh that looks interesting!. Is it going to be a hardwrare program available for
personal computers? I wouldn't mind paying $3-400 for a device/program which
trounces all top PC programs of now.
S.Taylor



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