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Subject: Re: Field for WCCC 9

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 04:34:48 03/22/99

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On March 21, 1999 at 20:40:43, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>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

If you look I am sure that the King 3.0 played in this year's Dutch Computer
Chess Championship and Won it.

I know it won something cause it was posted on here and on various computer
chess sites.



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