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Subject: Re: Frankfurt Chess Classic 2000

Author: CLiebert

Date: 15:49:56 03/18/00

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On March 18, 2000 at 18:40:40, Pierre Bourget wrote:

>From TWIC:
>
>The Frankfurt Chess Classic 2000 takes place June 16th-25th 2000. There will be
>six events: The Fujitsu Siemens Giants (6 players, double round robin, 4 days,
>June 22nd -25th) Participants: Anand, Kasparov, Kramnik, Leko, Morozevich,
>Shirov.
> Masters (8 players, double round robin, 4 days, June 22nd to June 25th)
>Participants: Adams, Bareev, Ivanchuk, Rabiega (winner of the German
>championships), Topalov, Van Wely (winner of last years open), Yussupov and the
>winner of this years open tournament.
> Computer exhibition matches (5 players, 2 games per match, June 17th to June
>18th) Participants: Anand, Kramnik, Leko, Morozevich, Shirov
> Ordix Open (15 rounds swiss, 3 days, June 16th to June 18th) The winner
>qualifies for the Master tournament, which starts afterwards!
> two simuls (June 19th, June 20th) one by Kasparov and one by Ivanchuk
> two Fischer Random Chess exhibition games In all events each player has 25
>minutes per game. The opening ceremony will take place on the evening of June
>21st, all players are obliged to participate. The closing ceremony including
>price giving takes place on June 25th following the last round of the Giants.
>
>So it seems that Kasparov has succeed to prevent Fritz 6 to play in the Giants
>section (it was qualified by last year victory in the masters
>section),nevertheless the computer exhibition matches with the five other
>participants should be very interesting.Curiously the name of the program is not mentioned.Fritz 6 ? or 7 ?

I think that it will be a Beta of fritz7.

Christian






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