Author: Mark Young
Date: 17:02:38 06/18/99
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On June 18, 1999 at 14:23:38, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi: >Due to how short the tourn is it is difficult or maybe imposible to say which >proram is the best and give his full meaning to the crown, BUT maybe the >contrary exercize has more sense. Maybe we can categorize the losers, no matter >what. And in this sad corner I supose Virtual Chess and Diep are clear losers. >Virtual, because he got second place in Paris and it is commercial, so his >market and reputation will suffer, and then Diep, because it is not fully >commercial BUT want to be since time ago and in each ocasion Vincent think he is >ready or almost ready to do the step, Diep dos not get enough points to put >itself in the launching platform. It is sad because they are both good >programs, but nobody said life is easy to live. >fernando The clear winner of this tournament for me is Shredder. We all knew Ferret, Junior, Rebel, Hiarcs, and Fritz are great programs and would have a chance to win. I would not have bet 2 cents that shredder would be near the top after 6 rounds. I would not say shredder was lucky either in this tournament, Shredder has played some very strong chess.
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