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)