Author: James Robertson
Date: 12:21:36 02/15/99
Recently someone posted as message about a tournament between best American programs and Best European programs. This seems rather difficult to do, so I decided to do my own winboard-freeware blitz tournament between best programs from English speaking countries and best European programs. I no of no British freeware winboard program, so no problems should arise there. Anyway, here is my list: English ------- Crafty 16.4 LambChop 7.10 EXchess 2.41 SSEChessII 2.01 Arasan 5.0 European -------- Comet 95 TCB 0402 LGoliath 1.40 Phalanx 21 ZChess 1.0 (I am going by the ratings on Djordje's chess page). I expect a Russia vs. the World result type result, only worse and in reverse. I might as well change "European" to "World" (no good programs anywhere else), and "Tournament" to "Cooking Class." Time control will be 40 moves in 5 minutes, all Hash 4MB, round robin with 5 rounds, every program will play every other program on the other team 4 times. As for the books, most programs will use their default books. I have downloaded extra books for Crafty (medium; I have the large too, but that seems unfair), Goliath, and Phalanx. I would like to hear anyone's and everyone's comments. James
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