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Subject: Re: World Computer Chess Championship in North America.. revised

Author: José Carlos

Date: 23:50:57 07/16/02

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On July 17, 2002 at 00:48:02, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On July 16, 2002 at 19:09:25, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>  This site is probably more up to date:
>>
>>http://home.hccnet.nl/leo.dijksman/EnginesIndex.html
>
>From those numbers, if you got all of the North American winboard engines to
>attend, you would have 28 participants, and a year from now there could be
>drastically more. Not all of those will attend of course. Then some will come
>from outside North America, and then take into account the engines that haven't
>been released yet that will be by this time next year, and what kind of estimate
>is that? I think 30 initially, but seeing as how WCCC didn't have 30, it makes
>me second guess myself.
>
>BTW, are there any non-Winboard engines in North America that we could add in to
>our estimate?

  Ferret. I don't recall any other now, but it could also help to have a look at
ICC or FICS computer accounts. Speaking of ICC, there're two strong programs
there (Searcher and Chester) but I don't know where the authors are from.
Monsoon is very strong too, and I think Scott is american.

  José C.




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