🚀 go-pugleaf

I was talking to one chess programmer on ICS pretty recently and
he told me about Don Beal's QMW uniform platform competition.
It turned out that Gnuchess took part in it (not sure which patchlevel
though) and scored 17.5 points out of 30.  It was placed 8th 
out of 16, which makes it about average.  Top was wchess by Kittinger
with 27.5 (wow!) and second was Mchess with 25.5(?).

Having run gnuchess on ICS as MaxII for more than a year and having
spent lots of time watching it play, I will say that the program has
improved though by how much is harder to judge.  It is now giving
strong ICS players a tougher time and beating some of them regularly
too.  Of course there is always the occasional loss to a much lower rated
player due its weak positional sense.  Whereas previously I would be
very happy to see it reaching the high 2200+ rating, it has recently
started breaking the 2400+ barrier quite a few times, though it wasn't
able to maintain its rating there.  In short, gnuchess has improved.

Having said that, gnuchess still has a long way to go.  I recently started
a match of pl71 against GrandMaster Chess.  After 3 games, gnu was leading
2.5 to 0.5.  Since pl73 has been released, I will restart the match and
play pl73 against GrandMaster Chess.  I'll post the games here for anybody
who is interested.  Anybody wanna take bets? :)

Kong Sian