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From: mark@princeton.UUCP (Mark Weiss)
Newsgroups: net.chess
Subject: Re: Fourth World Computer Chess Championship
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Date: Sat, 15-Oct-83 13:47:09 EDT
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    A few comments about the World Computer Chess Championship:

        1) Belle is now rated as MASTER after scoring 8.5 - 3.5 at
the U.S. Open in Pasadena.  It had been EXPERT for about 2 years.

        2) On the other hand, Belle was fortunate to win the North
American Championship last year, scoring 3 - 1, just as 3 other
computers did.  One of its wins was an opening trap against 
Nuchess (also 3-1), and one of its two draws was in a badly lost
position that was drawn by three fold repetition.

        3) As far as I know Belle has not been modified very much
since 1982, but you can bet that Nuchess and Cray Blitz have.

        4) Nuchess is written by David (Chess 4.9) Slate.

        5) I haven't heard anything about Kaissa lately.

    I don't think Kaissa is much of a threat but Nuchess may very well
topple Belle.   It should be exciting.
    This year's tournament is 5 rounds.

                                         Mark Weiss
                                         Princeton University