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Subject: Re: America versus Europe

Author: James Robertson

Date: 16:17:37 02/14/99

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On February 14, 1999 at 15:56:13, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:

>On February 14, 1999 at 13:19:02, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>On February 14, 1999 at 06:27:58, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On February 14, 1999 at 06:16:02, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:
>>
>>>>As far as I think, CM6000, MChessPro7 , Corel Chess(not strong enough for this
>>>>tournement!) and Crafty 16.4 are 'American' whilst Rebel 10, Hiarcs 7 , Fritz
>>>>5.32 and Nimzo 98, for instance, are 'European'. The possibility of going simply
>>>>to SSDF ranking is one I am also considering. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Tomas.
>>>
>>>CM6000, MChessPro7 I think are just as good as the rest, and since I am a CM6K
>>>fan, and from the games posted on here so far, I think it is more than strong
>>>enough for this type of tournament. And I think would be one of the strongest US
>>>programs. And if you are playing all games manually then I cannot see how you
>>>could leave it out.
>>>
>>>But you will get for and against for the programs you choose. But I would think
>>>you would want to include it, because from all the games and speculation so far
>>>it is up there with the best. If not the best.
>>
>>If CM6K is American, then so is Extreme Chess.
>>
>>But that's silly, they are both Dutch, since the engine authors are both Dutch.
>>
>>bruce
>
>Bruce,
>
>I know that my English is not perfect -I am Spanish-, but I hope everyone would
>be able to understand the sentence 'as far as I think'. For me CM6000 is clearly
>an 'American' program, since Mindscape is an American company, and who pays the
>money for the development of the program. If one day Michael Jordan plays for
>Barcelona Basketball :-) the titles eventually won will belong to the
>Catalonian/Spanish/European team, in spite of having a decisive American player.
>
>The reason for posting my message was only to get new visions for my idea. So
>that, anyway, thanks for your answer.
>
>Tomas.

The engine in CM6k competes as a Dutch program separate from CM6k. As a result,
I think CM6k in not an American program.

James



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