harley:
Sumerian is using one he has wrote himself, therefore can only be as good as his own play. (I guess!)

Your guess is COMPLETELY wrong! One can write a very good program, that would even be at the top of it's area, without being himself(or herself) even a little good at this area.......
Todays top Chess programs have a strenth of FIDE ELO= 2700 or more, but all of their programmers have even less than 2000 ELO or they do not have any ELO at all. Exceptions exist of course but there are VERY few and are not above 2400 ELO..........


As for the message to Sumerian, i completely disagree to the whole thing. So although i haven't used any program, as i'm 100% sure that there is not even a 0.00000000001% probability that all the 56 participants will send him a message and as i completely disagree to the message procedure, i will not send him any message.