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Subject: Re: CM vs GM Match -- Update

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:38:08 09/26/02

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On September 26, 2002 at 18:49:28, David Dahlem wrote:

>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

Or you can watch the match and then make your own!

jm



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