Author: jonathan Baxter
Date: 15:57:51 02/15/99
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On February 15, 1999 at 16:09:47, Will Singleton wrote: >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. > I decided against it but for no other reason than I don't have the time to support it at the moment. TDChess was down for most of last week while I waited for a free hour to fix an obscure bug that was causing it to crash all the time. Should play a lot more games this week. Cheers, Jon >-----
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