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Subject: Re: ICC Computer Tourney

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 22:18:38 01/17/00

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On January 17, 2000 at 17:45:28, Peter Kappler wrote:

>On January 17, 2000 at 17:06:20, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>
>>Here's a list of the participants (so far), together with a guess at the
>>hardware each will use.  Please advise of corrections, and we can pass the list
>>on to McRiley at ICC.  Also, the list is ordered loosely, based on my knowledge
>>(and lack thereof) of the programs standard playing strength *and* cpu speed.
>>I'm sure suggestions would be helpful to McRiley in this regard as well.
>>
>>Ferret         Xeon/450 x4
>>Crafty         Xeon/400 x4
>>ZarkovX        K2/333 or K3/475
>>Nimzo          Xeon/616
>>Shredder       (older version, hardware?)
>
>
>Here's my 2 cents on the ranking:
>
>I'd move Zarkov down to #5 (behind Nimzo and Shredder) especially since it's
>running on fairly slow hardware.
>
>Nimzo and Shredder should get the #3 and #4 slots depending on which has the
>faster hardware.  If the hardware is similar, I'd give the nod to Shredder, as
>reigning world champion.
>

Maybe so.  Hard to argue with success, but I thought it would be nice to have
three Americans at the top.  (no, just kidding.)

>
>>Little Goliath
>>LambChop       Kryotech/1ghz
>>Diep           P/200 x4
>>Insomniac
>>GnuChess       P3/500
>
>Is this a custom-modified version of Gnu?  If it's just the stock version that
>ships with Winboard, I think it should be lower down the list.
>
>>PostModernist  P3/450
>>Amateur        G3/500
>
>Aha - I see you've got yourself a new machine!  Nice.  :-)

Should get the upgrade card next week.  The specs say the system bus speed is
unchanged at 66mhz, so I'm looking at a 67% speedup.  Don't anticipate much
change at std time controls.

>I can testify from personal experience that PM and Amateur are stronger than
>Grok.  :-(
>

When Grok is on the Athlon, I'm not so sure.

>>Grok           Athlon/650
>>EXchess        P3/500
>>Hossa          P2/350
>
>I don't know anything about EXchess.  I'd argue that Hossa deserves to be higher
>on this list, but on a P2-350, this ranking is probably fair.
>
>--Peter
>
>
>>Bringer        P2/300
>>Galahad        K2/400
>>Averno
>>Tinker         P2/266
>>UruChess



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