Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 14:24:45 06/19/04
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On June 19, 2004 at 16:31:55, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 19, 2004 at 14:44:47, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On June 19, 2004 at 09:52:55, Ziad Haddad wrote: >> >>Almost all these participants will run on their newer Beta, but the 1st and 2nd >>place finishers will probably become commercials in a few months later :-) >> >> >> >>A. Ban and S. Bushinsky Junior Israel >>U. Blass Movei Israel >>R. Coulom The Crazy Bishop France >>O. David Tabibi Falcon Israel >>V. Diepeveen Diep Netherlands >>G.B.Garcia FIBChess Spain >>J. Hamlen Woodpusher 1997 United Kingdom >>R. Huber ParSOS Germany >>R. Hyatt Crafty USA >>G. Isenberg IsiChess Germany >>S. Meyer-Kahlen Shredder Germany >>F. Morsch and M. Feist Fritz Netherlands / Germany >>G.C. Pascutto Deep Sjeng Belgium >>J. Zwanzger Jonny Germany > >Some questions: > >1)What is the meaning of 1997 in woodpusher 1997? >Does it suggest that the program is from 1997 or only misleading information? It is probably the year when woodpusher was released. >2)Did somebody hear something about FIBchess? >I know nothing about it's level so maybe it can be the champion because I >believe that programs are generally weak relative to what is possible to >achieve(this is the reason that I started chess programming but I am not a good >programmer so movei is even weaker than weak). > >I believe that if a good programmer with very good ideas starts to work >seriously about chess programming then it is possible in one year to be at least >100 elo better than shredder8 and every time that I read about a new program >that I heard nothing about it I suspect that it is possible that the program is >the best. There was a project that started 2 years ago, and the idea was to reunite a few good programmers and develop the best chess program. The project was not a sucess. I believe that 10 years of continuing efforts and improvements as the authors of Shredder and Fritz can't be surpased in a single year. The only surprise that might occurs in this tourney is with Falcon. >It never happened in the past but it does not mean that it will never happen in >the future. > >Uri
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