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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