Author: Peter Kasinski
Date: 07:44:38 03/01/99
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On March 01, 1999 at 04:45:35, Will Singleton wrote: >Under 2600 Club >Mar 1 1999 > >Program ICC Blitz Change Games Platform Author > >ZChess 2607 +19 5 K6/266 Franck Zibi >Gromit 2569 ? Frank Schneider >TDChess 2562 +27 357 P/400 Jon Baxter >XXXXII 2556 P/266 Martin Zetner >Stobor 2534 +30 2 K6/350 Tom Kerrigan >Rookie 2514 +23 29 P/360 Marcel van Kervinck >PostModernist 2474 +43 24 K6/300 Andrew Williams >Amateur 2462 +48 73 Mac/300 Will Singleton >BugChess 2437 -8 4 P/450 Erik van het Hof >LambChop 2385 -103 139 P/133 Pete McKenzie >Hossa 2323 -73 296 P/350 Steffen Jakob >Grok 2319 11 K6/300 Peter Kappler >InmiChess 2281 +13 23 Cyrix/233 Werner Inmann >Pedestrian 2200 +115 42 P/450 Peter Kasinski >WildChild 1877 P/200 Brian McKinley > >Inactive List > >Rival 2248 P/266 Chris Moreton >EXchess 2332 Cel/400 Dan Homan >SSEChessII 2395 P/400 Sam Slutzky > > > ICC account names that differ from the program name: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Blik (Rookie), zchess1 (Zchess), Kerrigan (Stobor), > XXXX-2 (XXXXII), Chrismo (Rival), TayxBot (SSEChessII). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Notable > >We welcome a new program to the list, Pedestrian by Peter Kasinski. >Pedestrian had a good showing, winning against zippy as well as other good >opponents, and gained quite nicely. > Thanks for the kind words Will. This is a heavy debugging time for me and the progress came more as a result of proof-reading than anything else. I am encouraged by the decent showing despite the typos and bugs I keep finding. It's becoming obvious that I use a much too small problem set in my testing. Can't wait to see the thing play one game without weird moves in it. PK. >The lone new high was recorded by Zchess (2607). The astute reader will note >that 2607 is higher than 2600, and might wonder why Zchess remains in the list. >The rules (which I made up) state that a program must be above 2600 in two >consecutive active weeks in order to graduate. And even then, one is subject >to recall, since I am always watching <g>. No one has permanently checked- >out yet. > >TDChess played 357 games to take the games-played award, with Hossa and >LambChop in hot pursuit. There don't appear to be any hardware changes this >week. > >CCC Stuff > >There were some interesting discussions this week on search methods, null-move, >hashing and the like. As a result, Amateur added some code which seems to >have helped (as others may have, I suspect), and I'd like to thank Dailey, >Hyatt, Tuerke and others for their suggestions. What great resources we have >in CCC! > >Fics Stuff > >The fics server plays host to some strong contenders who don't appear on our >list. For those looking to test their latest changes, check out PowerHouse >(Fortress), ArasanX and Parrot. These guys will give you a run for your money. > >re New Feature > >I thought it might be fun to post an interesting position each week, taken from >a u2600 member game. These will normally have interest for the amateur >programmer, since he'll be able to compare others' performance against his own. >Last week's position generated a lot of comment, and caused me to add limited >checks to my qsearch, which seems to have helped somewhat. > >Anyway, the positions will be posted in a separate message. If you have a good >one, please send it to me.
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