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Subject: Re: is fritz 7 still king of the hill?

Author: David Dory

Date: 16:13:43 07/09/02

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On July 09, 2002 at 18:20:56, liam hearns wrote:

>are there any pretenders on the horizon?

I think this "King of the Hill" has become more of a "Maybe King of the mole
hill". On dual CPU's, Shredder seems to be winning the WCCC right now (ahead of
Fritz, code-named "Quest"). Chrilly Donninger's "Brutus" also seems to be ahead
of Fritz, and specifically something VERY cutting edge and exciting for the
commercial computer chess scene.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Ed Schroeder is in the final prep stages for his
Windows compatible Century release, which everyone is intensely curious about,
and a dark horse might be found in the new release of ChessMaster 9000 in a
couple months.

John Merlino has been posting up some wonderful solution times to positional
problems posted herein, with CM9000, all on a modest PIII at 600Mhz, IIRC.

AND let's not forget that Sjeng and Warp (and undoubtedly more), are within a
hair's breadth of Quest (Fritz) in the WCCC. Sjeng having had a rather tougher
draw of opponents than many programs.

Just over the horizon, I see Vincent so ticked from the bugs hurting Diep's
performance at the WCCC, that he'll be working like crazy to get Diep as strong
as possible, as quickly as possible.

David





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