Author: David Dahlem
Date: 15:49:28 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 Thanks for the info, John. Looks like a great event. Now if there was only a Christiansen personality in CM 9000, we could simulate the match in advance. :) Dave
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