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Subject: Re: Under 2600 Club

Author: James Long

Date: 21:12:37 12/07/98

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On December 07, 1998 at 20:52:52, Will Singleton wrote:

I'm in. :-)
Include "Galahad."  On ICC, it plays as "jlong."
The program is brand new and still lacking any
sophisticated heuristics, but it should improve
rapidly.  When it surpasses Tristram, I'll probably
have you remove Tris from the list.

--
James



>
>For us amateur chess programmers, I thought it might be a
>fun idea to have a bit of organized competition, other than
>tournaments.  To that end, I propose the formation of the
>"Under 2600 Club," <:) which would recognize the achievement
>and standing of its members as determined by ICC blitz
>rating.
>
>This club is fairly unique, since the main goal of its
>members is to escape.  Should that happen, all due
>recognition and reward will be bestowed, whatever that might
>be.
>
>And so, I nominate myself as permanent chairman ;) and stat-
>keeper.  I might mention at the outset that I chose ICC as
>the forum for this simply because there's more activity
>there.  FICS has better stat functions and features, but
>that's life.  Kind of like the MacOS vs Windows.
>
>
>Charter Members (in alphabetical order)
>
>Program     Author            Blitz  Platform    ICC handle
>
>Amateur     Will Singleton    2460   Mac/300
>BugChess    Hof               2476   P/450
>Exchess     Dan Homan         2311   Alpha/175
>Grok        Peter Kappler     2259   K6/300
>Gromit      Frank Schneider   2588   ?
>Hossa       Steffan Jakob     2353   P/350
>Lambchop    Pete McKenzie     2538   P/133
>OliThink    Oliver Brausch    2432   ?            Olipow
>Postmodernist Andy Williams   2466   K6/300
>Rival       Chris Moreton     2295   P/266        Chrismo
>Rookie      M. van Kervinck   2563   Sun/250      Blik
>Stobor      Tom Kerrigan      2454   ?            Kerrigan
>Tristram    James Long        2133   P/166
>XXXXII      Martin Zetner     2407   P/266
>ZChess      Frank Zibi        2467   K6/266
>
>
>If there's actually interest in this, I'll put together a
>program to automate the stat list, and post it each week or
>so.  If anyone doesn't want to be on it, let me know.  I'm
>sure I've forgotten some programs, so let me know about that
>too.
>
>fics only or ?
>
>Fortress
>Rabbit
>Cilian
>SSEChessII
>Gazebo



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