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Subject: Re: Who are the sensations in the history of Computer Chess?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:43:10 09/24/02

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On September 23, 2002 at 23:51:26, ludicrous wrote:

>1) HIARCS - An Amateur Program suddenly wins the world championship
>2) Junior - Won the World Championship a few years ago (Junior 4.6?), while
>regarded still an amateur
>3) Tiger - Shot up the SSDF list a few years back, right after its introduction
>4) Ruffian - A newcomer who took all-comers, and beat down some really big name
>programs.   :-)


I don't follow the "amateur" stuff.  IE I won two WCCC tournaments and
several ACM tournaments, all the while classified (using today's ICCA
definition) as an "amateur".

Amateur does _not_ mean "inexperienced"...

All of the above (except 4) have been around a long time...



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