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Subject: Re: American Chess Programs vs European Chess Programs

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 13:33:46 01/10/04

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On January 10, 2004 at 12:39:07, Rick Rice wrote:

>I was browsing the website for the North American Computer Chess Association -
>http://homepage.mac.com/chessnotation/events.html
>
>.. where I came across an event to be held in November 2004 - Annual Beat Europe
>Computer Chess Competition . It started me thinking if there were even any
>quality American chess programs to match European chess programs, apart from
>Crafty. I was surprised to find quite a few:
>
>1 : USA ( 37 )
>Alex, Amateur, Arasan, Bace, Beaches, Betsy, BigBook, Chad's Chess, ChessRikus,
>Crafty, DChess, DeepTrouble, Dorky, DrunkenMaster, EXchess, Fimbulwinter,
>Gerbil, GnuChess 4, GnuChess 5, Horizon, Jester, Kace, LTK, NoonianChess,
>Parrot, Plywood, Pooky, Puslar, ROBOKewlper, Simontacchi, SlowChess, SSEChess,
>Storm, Tristram, TSCP, Usurper, Zotron.
>

Noticeably absent from that list are two very strong programs, Ferret and
Zarkov.  There are probably many more omissions, but two that come to mind from
the amateur ranks are Monsoon and Grok.

-Peter

>.... you could browse those from other countries at this site -
>http://vigo.altervista.org/Team_WOCT-2.htm#USA
>
>This should be quite interesting then, if the event were to go ahead on November
>4. I think the Europeans will hold upper hand, with Ruffian, Deep Sjeng, Delfi,
>Gromit, Comet etc. They seem to be quite ahead of their American counterparts.
>
>Cheers,
>Rick



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