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Subject: New Milestone of Computer Chess

Author: Mike S.

Date: 12:09:33 07/16/00


P.ConNers has won the category 11 GM tournament in Lippstadt, scoring 7,5 points
from 11 games, ahead of the equally scoring Zbynek Hracek. Third is Maja
Tchiburdanidse. With the alternative scoring numbers used in Lippstadt, the
final result is:

10th GM-Tournament Lippstadt 2000:
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1. P.ConNers             21
2. Hracek, Zbynek        20
3. Tschiburdanidse, Maja 19
4. Müller, Karsten       18
5. Slobodjan, Roman      17
6. Speelman, Jonathan    16
7. Dautov, Rustem        15
8. Schlosser, Philipp    13
9. Luther, Thomas        10
10. Wehmeier, Stefan      7
10. Dr. Brenke, Andreas   7
12. Mc Shane, Luke        3

(win 3 points, draw 1 point)

According to their website http://people.freenet.de/lsvturm/gm2000.htm ,
the elo performance of P.ConNers was 2657.

Is this the first time a computer won a standard GM tournament? I think yes.
Party time folks! A black day for computer haters, isn't it?

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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