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Subject: Re: Is Crafty the only serious US program today?

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 11:36:22 12/02/03

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On December 02, 2003 at 13:49:06, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 02, 2003 at 06:22:14, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Ferret seems to be unplugged or? Just wondering...
>
>Ferret is a dormant volcano, waiting to detonate.  Wondering about Insomniac
>too.
>
>But there are others.  Here is the list of released Winboard programs from the
>USA:
>
>Alex,   Amateur,   Arasan,   Bace,   Beaches,   Betsy,   BigBook,   Chad's
>Chess,   ChessRikus,   Crafty,   DChess,
>DeepTrouble,   Dorky,   DrunkenMaster,   EXchess,   Fimbulwinter,   Gerbil,
>GnuChess 4.0.x,   GnuChess 5.x,   Horizon,
>iChess,   Jester,   Kace,   NoonianChess,   Parrot,   Plywood,   Pooky,
>Pulsar,   ROBOKewlper,  Simontacchi,  SlowChess,
>SSEChess,   Storm,  Tristram,   TSCP,   Usurper   and   Zotron.
>
>Some of them are pretty strong.
>
>In particular, Amateur, Arasan, Crafty, ExChess, Horizon, and SlowChess can put
>a scare into a good program (maybe some of the others, but I don't play them
>enough to know).
>
>SlowChess has a very rapid rise.  There are also other programs being developed
>that are not publicly available.

Zarkov?  Don't know if JS is still developing.

Will



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