Author: Albert Silver
Date: 09:50:20 08/04/04
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On August 04, 2004 at 08:43:30, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>On August 04, 2004 at 05:51:55, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On August 04, 2004 at 04:07:10, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>>
>>>On August 04, 2004 at 02:15:14, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 03, 2004 at 15:41:17, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 03, 2004 at 12:29:48, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On August 02, 2004 at 20:51:56, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Subject: Re: wereldkampioenschap ICGA - 3 deelnemers?
>>>>>>Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:55:04 +0100
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi Vincent
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thank you for pointing this out to us. In fact the official title of the
>>>>>>event is "Man vs Machine World Chess Team Championship". I agreed this title
>>>>>>with the Bilbao organisers when I visited them last year to discuss the
>>>>>>event and I confirmed it to them in writing on September 15th 2003.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>2004 is the first year for the team event and, if it is a publicity success,
>>>>>>it is expected to grow from year to year, with the teams on each side
>>>>>>becoming larger.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have pointed out the error to the people in Bilbao and have asked them to
>>>>>>insert the word "Team". I have explained to them that the ICGA has already
>>>>>>designated Kasparov vs Deep Junior and Kasparov vs Deep Fritz as individual
>>>>>>world championships for man vs machine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Kind regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>David Levy
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>It is fine if the IGCA, namely David Levy tries to establish some (hu)man versus
>>>>>computer matches. But IMHO the title "World Championship" deserves qualified but
>>>>>not arbitrary choosen participants by commercial interests, at least for the
>>>>>programs.
>>>>>
>>>>>Seems, as they made the contract, Brutus/Hydra was still chessbase.
>>>>>So the chessbase team excluding Shredder is now a chessbase/pal-group team.
>>>>>
>>>>>What about an "ICGA Author vs Machine World Chess Team Championship"?
>>>>>Diepeveen/Zwanzger/Mayer-Kahlen against (or with) Jonny/Shredder/Diep ;-)
>>>>>(not playing against own programs?)
>>>>>
>>>>>Gerd
>>>>
>>>>Good suggestion there Gerd !
>>>
>>>
>>>No it was not good - the whole issue is too serious
>>>to make sarcastic jokes about, sorry for that.
>>
>>Yes Gerd, you should be ashamed.
>
>I am ;-(
>
>>
>>How about a "ICGA WORLD programs beginning with the letter X CHAMPIONSHIP" ?
>>
>
>Sponsored by X3D!
>XiniX and XXXX even start and end with X.
>Xenarbor, X Tempo, Xie Long...
>Favorite is X3D-fritz!
>
>Gerd
For reasons of practicality, it would be much easier to organize a championship
of engines beginning with the letter V.
Albert
>
>>Tony
>>
>>>
>>>Gerd
>>>
>>>
>>>>I would like to see the authors of strong programs (preferably the winners of
>>>>WCCC :) ) play against their own programs ! - Note : no last minute dumbing down
>>>>of programs allowed ;)
>>>>
>>>>If nothing , it might tell us humans how to combat their programs :( - too tough
>>>>to beat most of them ... even with book and egtb and pondering disabled and at
>>>>timeodds :(
>>>>
>>>>Mridul
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