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Subject: ICC Computer Tournament - Should be a Great Event

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 13:58:44 01/03/00


The 1st Internet Chess Club's Computer Chess Tournament is shaping up to be a
really cool event.  As far as I know, this will be the first event of its type
and I predict this type of tournament will become more popular than the
traditional computer chess tournaments.  Already there are about 17 entries with
hopefully more to come.

Pre tournament favourites:

Ferret - second in the 1999 World Computer Chess Championships.  A very tough
program, but rumour has it that Bruce hasn't done any work on it for quite some
time.  Perhaps the others are catching up?

Nimzo - so far the only commercial program entered, are the others running
scared?

Crafty - always strong, and who knows what sort of monster hardware Bob will be
turning up with!

I think I read that Rebel won't be playing, why not Ed?
I'm hopeful that some other strong programs such as Junior, RebelTiger,
Shredder, Zarkov, and Comet will play.  What say their authors?

The tournament will be held on the following dates:

Rd 1,  Sat Jan 29, noon - Rd 2,  Sat Jan 29, 3:30PM
Rd 3,  Sun Jan 30, noon - Rd 4,  Sun Jan 30, 3:30PM
Rd 5,  Sat Feb  5, noon - Rd 6,  Sat Feb  5, 3:30PM
Rd 7,  Sun Feb  6, noon - Rd 8,  Sun Feb  6, 3:30PM

For more information, log on to ICC and type 'help cct' or 'finger cct-1'.

cheers,
Peter



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