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Subject: Re: Field for WCCC 9

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 17:40:43 03/21/99

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On March 21, 1999 at 20:37:49, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>
>On March 21, 1999 at 19:06:58, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>On March 21, 1999 at 17:01:26, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>>"Arthur: Ravenek, Walter"
>>>"Centaur: Vikhrev, Victor"
>>>"ChessTiger: Theron, Christophe"
>>>"Cilkchess: Dailey, Don"
>>>"DarkThought: Heinz, Ernst"
>>>"Diep: Diepeveen, Vincent"
>>>"EUGEN: CASTILLO-JIMENEZ, EUGENIO"
>>>"Ferret: Moreland, Bruce"
>>>"Francesca: King, Tom"
>>>"Fritz: Morsch, Frans"
>>>"GromitChess: Schneider, Frank"
>>>"Hiarcs: Uniacke, Mark"
>>>"Ikarus: Kolss, Muntsin"
>>>"Isichess: Isenberg, Gerd"
>>>"Junior: Ban, Amir"
>>>"LambChop: McKenzie, Peter"
>>>"Neurologic: Peussner, Jochen"
>>>"Nimzo: Doninger, Chrilly"
>>>"Now: Lefler, Mark"
>>>"P.ConNors: Lorenz, Ulf"
>>>"Patzer: Roland, Pfister"
>>>"Q: Prethaler, Robert"
>>>"Rebel: Schroder, Ed"
>>>"RuyLopez: Begue-Aguado, Alvaro"
>>>"Shredder: Meyer-Kahlen, Stefan"
>>>"SOS: Huber, Rudolf"
>>>"Stobor: Kerrigan, Tom"
>>>"Virtual_Chess_X: Baudot, Marc-Francois"
>>>"Xinix: Werten, Tony"
>>>"XXXX2: Zentner, Martin"
>>>"Zugzwang: Feldmann, Rainer"
>>>
>>>Tragically, there is no crafty - I guess Bob couldn't make it?
>>
>>I know about everything on this list except for Ikarus, Q, RuyLopez, and Xinix.
>>Does anyone know about these?
>>
>>The big iron in this list is Cilkchess, P.ConNors, and Zugzwang.
>>
>>I know that at least some of the entries which have traditionally run on
>>single-processor micros will be running on multi-processor micros, but other
>>than myself I don't know for sure which ones.
>>
>>I know all the micro entries, I think.
>>
>>Notably absent are MChess, Genius, WChess, Zarkov, and Crafty.
>>
>>Notably present is Rebel.
>>
>>Longest plane trip will be LambChop :-)
>>
>>Looking forward to seeing everyone.
>>
>>bruce
>
>I am sad to see that the king engine is not there also. If Rebel can turn up I
>think the Chessmaster engine could have been played also.
>
>We would have got some idea on how it competes against the rest, King 3.0 has
>had some very impressive results and I am starting to get annoyed that it does
>not do something to show and prove its strength. The best way to get a chess
>program to sell is to prove it is better than the rest. I just wonder how many
>more of Hiarcs were sold simply because it made it to the top of the SSDF.

I haven't seen the King engine in a computer tournament since 1995.  But I
forgot to mention another missing competitor, which is Chess System Tal.

bruce



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