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Subject: Re: Nowadays monoprocessor winner is not recognized at the WCCC ?

Author: George Sobala

Date: 14:44:16 11/30/03

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On November 30, 2003 at 17:29:49, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>Back in the good old days when all the Affordable Home P.C. were monoprocessor,
>the best Chess programs were combined with the best available single Processor
>P.C. in order to have a chance of winning the World Computer Chess Championship.
>But now we don't even give recognition to the Winner of the Monoprocessor
>Program which was GREEN LIGHT by Tim Fodem. This was a great accomplishment,
>since in order to win you have to at least win against
>one of the program using much powerful system such as Dual Opteron. Both El
>chinito and Green Light won a game against Deep Sjeng. In my Opinion List was
>going to upset another of the big boys besides BRUTUS, but unfortunately it was
>not given the chance.
>
>PS: Congratulations to Tim Foden for having the courage to enter knowing that
>you were going to be facing Top Chess Programs using Super Computers.

I second that. Well done Tim!

Is the version which played going to put up onto his website? (Or even could it
be the same version? Unlikely - 3.00 is dated March 2003).



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