Author: James Robertson
Date: 16:04:17 01/03/99
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On January 03, 1999 at 11:29:34, Will Singleton wrote: >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." I guess "Kaissa"? I have no clue what "null move" is in Russian. :) James > >The prize is another copy of the 1982 work "The Soul of a New Machine," by >Tracy Kidder. > > >Happy Programming!
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