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Subject: Re: CCT8 - Two more entrants

Author: David Mitchell

Date: 20:07:02 01/01/06

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On December 31, 2005 at 15:00:00, Dan Ellwein wrote:

>On December 31, 2005 at 07:39:35, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>There are two new entrants for CCT8:
>>
>>PostModernist by Andrew Williams
>>The Baron by Richard Pijl
>>
>>http://www.cctchess.be
>>
>>Peter
>>
>>PS - This is shaping up to be a great year to be entered. The number of
>>inquiries asking for the deadline to be able to join suggests there will be many
>>last minute additions. Some inquiries are from unlikely.. or previously thought
>>unlikely participants :)
>>
>>Stay tuned
>>
>>Peter
>
>Hi Peter
>
>Looking forward to this event...
>
>there's a chess program called - Symbolic
>
>the author for awhile was posting his progress on the engine
>
>have you heard about this program or know who the author is...
>
>thanks,
>
>Dan Ellwein

Great to see more entrants, and especially good to hear that Symbolic will be
playing. The author is Steven Edwards, and Symbolic is a real experiment in AI,
with it's "toolbox" part of the program doing only shallow searches. All others
are directed by AI in the program, which is written mainly in Common Lisp, and
runs on Mac's.

It's been quite a while since Steven posted his current status on the program.
When you try to follow it (I know stink about CL), it's quite a challenge. No
ordinary A-B searcher, here.

I don't expect Symbolic to do particularly well; I don't know if it even has a
well-tuned opening book, and the competition is certainly formidable, but it's
great to hear it's ready for an outing.

Dave



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