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Subject: Re: American Chess Programs vs European Chess Programs

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 20:36:19 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.
>
>.... 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

Don't forget Zappa.  Its probably about 50 elo weaker than Arasan.

anthony



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