Author: Chessfun
Date: 13:35:12 09/26/02
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On September 26, 2002 at 16:32:36, John Merlino wrote:
>Once again, the match between Chessmaster 9000 and US Champion GM Larry
>Christiansen will be taking place on ICC this weekend. Two games per day, with
>the games starting at 10am and 3pm Eastern time.
>
>The time control that was originally agreed upon was 30 moves in 60 minutes, but
>ICC does not support a moves/minutes time control. So, it is probably going to
>be changed to 2 minutes plus 120 seconds per move.
>
>Chessmaster will be using a P4-2.66, with all 5-piece endgame databases. It will
>use four different personalities for the match. The Chessmaster personality will
>be going last, and there will be three GM personalities that will be used for
>the other three games. Apart from changing the hash table size to 64MB, these
>personalities will be identical to the ones in CM9000.
>
>If you want to watch the match, just "follow CM9000". There will be live
>commentary by GM Joel Benjamin, current Women's US Champion WIM Jennifer
>Shahade, IM Josh Waitzkin (Sunday only), and possibly GM Maurice Ashley as well
>(his participation is not yet confirmed). GM Yasser Seirawan will provide full
>post-game analysis of all four games at some point after the match is completed.
>He is currently in a tournament right now, so it might be several days to a few
>weeks before this is accomplished.
>
>We hope to see you all there!
>
>jm
Hi John,
Good luck.
Maybe also it should be listed at ICC in current events?
CHESSCLUB.COM EVENTS: More details: "help event2".
Times are EDT, add 4 hours for GMT.
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Thu Sep 26, 7am: LIVE COVERAGE European Club Cup "finger Live"
Thu Sep 26, 8pm: LOSERS NIGHT. Two 3 1 rated tourneys. "help LOL".
Thu Sep 26, 9pm: Weekly Thematic Tournament. "finger Thematic".
Thu Sep 26, 9pm: LeChess Club 15 5 Knockout Tournament. "finger LeChess".
Thu Sep 26, 10:30pm: IM MaestroASK gives a 3-chekel 20 0 SIMUL.
Fri Sep 27, 7am: LIVE COVERAGE European Club Cup "finger Live"
Fri Sep 27, 7pm: FIDE MASTER A-Storm gives a LECTURE on the Sicilian.
Fri Sep 27, 7pm: 30 0 SIMUL by IM (5 chekels) "finger AjedrezHoy"
Fri Sep 27, 8pm: Blitz tournament: 5 0 unrated, for all ratings
Fri Sep 27, 10:30pm: IM MaestroASK gives a 3-chekel 20 0 SIMUL.
Sat Sep 28, 7am: LIVE COVERAGE European Club Cup "finger Live"
Sat Sep 28, noon: Team Standard Tournament. "finger TEAMstandard".
Sat Sep 28, 1pm: Loser's Chess Marathon. "help LOL"
Sat Sep 28, 3pm: WBCA-rated Tournament. "help WBCA" for details.
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Sarah
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