Author: Will Singleton
Date: 13:09:47 02/15/99
Under 2600 Club Feb 15 1999 Program ICC Blitz Change Games Platform Author ZChess 2575 +35 16 K6/266 Frank Zibi Gromit 2569 34 ? Frank Schneider XXXXII 2556 -1 7 P/266 Martin Zetner Rookie 2548 -15 26 P/360 M. van Kervinck Stobor 2534 +10 34 K6/350 Tom Kerrigan TDChess 2514 -43 58 P/400 Jon Baxter PostModernist 2431 -29 20 K6/300 Andrew Williams BugChess 2428 +50 135 P/450 Erik van het Hof Hossa 2406 +182 402 P/350 Steffen Jakob Amateur 2400 -72 93 Mac/300 Will Singleton SSEChessII 2395 P/400 Sam Slutzky Lambchop 2388 +37 76 P/133 Pete McKenzie Grok 2337 K6/300 Peter Kappler InmiChess 2331 +42 11 Cyrix/233 Werner Inmann WildChild 1877 -12 8 P/200 Brian McKinley Inactive List Rival 2248 P/266 Chris Moreton EXchess 2332 Cel/400 Dan Homan OliThink 2333 ? Oliver Brausch ICC account names that differ from the program name: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blik (Rookie), zchess1 (Zchess), Kerrigan (Stobor), Olipow (OliThink), Chrismo (Rival), TayxBot (SSEChessII). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notable We welcome Gromit to the list this week. No telling how long it will stay, however. If you notice, we have several progs bunched at the top of the scale, and no permanent graduates. This might indicate that 2600 ICC blitz is a kind of natural ceiling for the top amateur programs. After all, the only way to get much higher is to start beating the crafty clones (and the odd commercial account), and if you start doing that, then you really have taken a large leap forward. In fact, there is this one program that is going commercial (real soon now), but is having a tough time staying above 2600. :) Let's see, we had one new high recorded, that by Zchess at 2575. And, coincidentally, Zchess tops the list this week. Congratulations to Frank Zibi! Rookie has upgraded to a P/360 (is there really a 360?), and played a few games, so it's back on active duty. Ditto for XXXX2 (the active duty part). SSEChessII and Grok have been quiet for awhile (is there life outside computer chess?). Hossa is our games-played leader with 402. Steffen tells us that he has fixed a couple bugs (sure) and he's back in top form. I do know one thing: Hossa surely holds the record for most version updates in a week! Anyway, check it out, it's playing solid 2400 blitz now. Amateur rewrote his null-move code, and made various other improvements, and promptly dropped 150 points before recovering somewhat. Amazing how test suite performance doesn't reflect actual playing strength. BugChess seems to have cleaned its noplay list, and has no rating restrictions in its formula. Playing all-comers now, I guess. LambChop indicates he's finally got pondering working now. About time! TDchess has taken off the fi note which had indicated the source was about to be released. That means he's either done it already, or has decided against it. I would assume the latter, given the problems with source code cheating we've seen recently. -----
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