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Subject: Re: Dutch Computer Chess Championship 1998

Author: blass uri

Date: 14:26:15 11/29/98

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On November 29, 1998 at 15:35:17, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote:

>On November 29, 1998 at 13:57:02, Johan Havegheer wrote:
>
>>The King 3.0 has just finished first after a win against Nimzo99
>>
>>Congratulations to Johan De Koning.
>
>Amen.
>
>See: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thstorm/docc98.htm
>for tournament details, including PGN files up through round 9
>(as of this moment - 10&11 due soon), and round by round crosstables.
>
>*** Macintosh program places 3rd ****************************************
>Wim van Beusekom (author of MacChess) visited the tournament last weekend,
>and tells me "Arthur" (programmer Walter Ravenek) was running on
>Walter's '"old" 120 MHz Mac'. (A Power Mac 8500/120, I believe).
>This was a good tournament for "Arthur" - it drew the supercomputer
>"CilkChess 2.0", and beat Nimzo '99. I wonder if "Arthur" would have done
>even better with faster equipment, like a 400MHz G3.
>"Arthur" placed 4th in 1995 and 5th in 1996.

Arthur also missed a draw against the king
It could play 104.Qxa2+ with a draw

Uri




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