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Subject: Re: u2600 Rating List -- Feb 1

Author: Brian McKinley

Date: 13:28:54 02/01/99

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Please add WildChild to the bottom of the list.

Thanks,

Brian McKinley

On February 01, 1999 at 12:27:00, Will Singleton wrote:

>Under 2600 Club
>Feb 1 1999
>
>Program      ICC Blitz  Change   Games     Platform    Author
>
>TDChess          2611     +93     380      P/400       Jon Baxter
>Stobor           2522      +1       9      P/200       Tom Kerrigan
>ZChess           2510     +27       4      K6/266      Frank Zibi
>PostModernist    2434      -7      13      K6/300      Andrew Williams
>Amateur          2402     -33      92      Mac/300     Will Singleton
>SSEChessII       2395                      P/400       Sam Slutzky
>Lambchop         2388     +27       9      P/133       Pete McKenzie
>BugChess         2370     +24     191      P/450       Erik van het Hof
>EXchess          2361                      Cel/400     Dan Homan
>Grok             2337     +24       3      K6/300      Peter Kappler
>InmiChess        2292                      Cyrix/233   Werner Inmann
>Rival            2248                      P/266       Chris Moreton
>Hossa            2244     -15     247      P/350       Steffen Jakob
>
>Inactive List
>
>Rookie           2563                      Sun/250     M. van Kervinck
>OliThink         2333                      ?           Oliver Brausch
>XXXXII           2557                      P/266       Martin Zetner
>
> ICC account names that differ from the program name:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Blik (Rookie), zchess1 (Zchess), Kerrigan (Stobor),
> Olipow (OliThink), Chrismo (Rival), TayxBot (SSEChessII).
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Notable
>
>This week TDChess pushed past the magic 2600 mark.  Those who have been watching
>will have noted that TDChess improved in each of the last four weeks (while
>playing an average of about 450 games per week), starting at 2338 five weeks
>ago. Don't know whether this is due to program changes or the effects of TD
>lambda, perhaps Jon could enlighten us.  So congratulations to Mr. Baxter, he or
>his hidden units have been working hard!  Per rule, if he is above 2600 next
>week, he officially graduates.
>
>Everything else was fairly quiet.  No new highs were recorded, and no one
>changed hardware.  The list order was similar to last week, except that XXXX-2
>was moved to the inactive list, having not played for a few weeks.
>
>SSEChessII did not play, and I have a hunch that time on that P2/400 is getting
>scarce.  I notice that WildChild has played a few games, just testing probably.
>But perhaps Brian is getting close.
>
>TDChess is again the games-played leader at 380.
>
>
>For the Record
>
>Some of these programs play under different accounts at ICC, run by individuals
>not affiliated with the authors.  For example, SSEChessII plays as SSE, Lambchop
>runs under various accounts, and sometimes Secret runs EXchess.  Inmichess and
>Rival also have other accounts.  I don't list them here because they aren't the
>accounts of the authors, and also it would get too confusing.  But for those who
>want to play them when the main account isn't running, they are there.



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