Author: Will Singleton
Date: 08:29:34 01/03/99
Under 2600 Club Jan 3 1999 Program ICC Blitz Change Games Platform Author ZChess 2441 -20 14 K6/266 Frank Zibi Grok 2441 K6/300 Peter Kappler Amateur 2416 +79 65 Mac/300 Will Singleton PostModernist 2410 -92 18 K6/300 Andrew Williams Rival 2372 +155 55 P/266 Chris Moreton TDChess 2368 -77 563 P/400 Jon Baxter BugChess 2362 -91 37 P/450 Erik van het Hof SSEChessII 2356 +37 11 P/200 Sam Slutzky Hossa 2314 -50 203 P/350 Steffen Jakob Lambchop 2308 -19 73 P/133 Pete McKenzie Inmichess 2305 +51 6 Cyrix/233 Werner Inmann Inactive List Rookie 2563 Sun/250 M. van Kervinck Stobor 2456 P/200 Tom Kerrigan OliThink 2333 ? Oliver Brausch EXchess 2311 Alpha/175 Dan Homan ICC account names that differ from the program name: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blik (Rookie), zchess1 (Zchess), Kerrigan (Stobor), Olipow (OliThink), Chrismo (Rival), TayxBot (SSEChessII). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy New Year! This week the list comes one day early, due to a scheduling conflict. New this week is the Inactive List, which shows programs that have been inactive for awhile (three weeks, perhaps). XXXX-2 is no longer with us, having joined the >2600 Club. WildChild has also been delisted, not yet ready for prime time. Notable Highest increase for the week goes to Rival. Way to go, Chris. SSEChessII continued its improvement from last week, and Inmichess is starting to make a move. In fact, those three programs also recorded new best blitz marks (2388, 2359 and 2320, respectively). If you look at the active list, the entire rating spread is now only 136 points. I suppose that might be considered within the normal statistical variation for playing ICC blitz, and that all the programs now on the list are roughly equivalent. It will be interesting to see how things play out as time (and effort) goes by. (note also that none of the top 4 programs were running on pentiums :)) Most Active was TDChess, averaging 1 blitz game every 18 minutes! I believe it was on continuously throughout the week. Those university guys… Trivia Contest Which program won the First World Computer Chess Championship? First correct answer posted here gets the prize. Extra credit for its programmers’ term for "null move." The prize is another copy of the 1982 work "The Soul of a New Machine," by Tracy Kidder. Happy Programming!
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