jaw@ames.UUCP (James A. Woods) (10/11/84)
# Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to
lead to confusion & unhappiness. -- James Thurber
The standings follow. Ties were broken by considering the sum of
the opponents' scores. Since 'Bebe' and 'Fidelity X' deadlocked here, the
sum of the opponents' opponents' scores were tallied. Deadheat again, so
by fiat, Fidelity walked home with the second place trophy, as Bebe finished
second at ACM '83. (At least, I think this is what happened, the groggy
hardcore disbanding at 1 am).
There were surprises, including a disappointing showing by Belle.
I shall leave game commentary to the experts. Mike Valvo and Danny Kopec
emceed the fourth round, and several other masters were in attendance,
including former World Juniors champ Julio Kaplan.
Blitz was running on a 420 MIP four-barrel Cray XMP-48, computing
100K nodes per second (Belle does 160K). Bebe is a custom bit-slice micro,
with hardware assist for various functions. Fidelity is a commercial 6 MHz
6502, and International Software Experimental is David Levy's Apple II.
Cray Blitz 2150 4
Fidelity X 1900 3
Bebe 1927 3
Chaos 1714 3
Belle 2200 2.5
Nuchess 2100 2
Phoenix 1910 2
Novag X 1970 2
Int. Soft. X 2022 (est) 2
Schach 2.7 N/A 1.5
Ostrich 1475 1
Awit 1600 1
Merlin N/A 1
Xenarbor N/A 0
Stay tuned for related postings ...
-- James A. Woods {hplabs,ihnp4,philabs}!ames!jaw (jaw@riacs.ARPA)