Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:35:49 01/28/99
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On January 28, 1999 at 11:56:26, Steven Schwartz wrote: >While rummaging through the results of old CCC Opinion Polls in preparation >for some new questions that we are about to put up, I came across these >results from this past Christmas. Now that the new SSDF has just arrived >(now up on the WCCR in the Computer Chess Resource Center), it is >interesting to see how well/poorly we all guessed at the outcome. >-Steve (ICD/Your Move) > > Which of the following new chess programs do you think > will turn out to be the strongest? > Voters Could Choose One > Fritz 5.32 bit 95 Votes 29.87 % > Rebel 10.0 58 Votes 18.24 % > Hiarcs 7.0 56 Votes 17.61 % > Chess Genius 6.0 25 Votes 7.86 % > Chessmaster 6000 19 Votes 5.97 % > Junior 5.0 19 Votes 5.97 % > M-Chess Pro 8.0 8 Votes 2.52 % > Nimzo 99 4 Votes 1.26 % > Shredder 3.0 4 Votes 1.26 % > Abstain 30 Votes 9.43 % I didn't realize it took a mathematical genius to figure out the next term in this 'series'. But it goes like this: the most recently released program will pop to the top of the SSDF nearly every time. The reason? It is called "auto- 232"...
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