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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