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Subject: Re: Dutch teletext: "Fritz plays in dutch championship"

Author: Jürgen Hartmann

Date: 03:54:59 04/06/00

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On April 06, 2000 at 04:01:01, Paolo Casaschi wrote:

>Who and how selected Fritz ?
>There are planty of programs that cuold have been selected,
>even if you look only for a Dutch program (e.g. The King,
>even if the definition of "Dutch program" is not really clear to me...)
>
>Human players have to qualify, do we have shortcuts for programs ?
>Based on what ($$$) ?
>
>Or is the Dutch federation following the example of Kasparov,
>that is selecting the best opponent for himself based on his
>own judgement (in the end he is the best chess player in the world,
>so he know who really deserves to play for the title :-)

Isn't Fritz the Dutch Computer Champion? But I suppose that doesn't impress the
human players. So I think its simply the sponsoring money. It shouldn't be
allowed to seduce organizers and players of human chess tournaments with
sponsoring money for computers. Well what the hack, I am looking forward to the
games. Result is not so clear is it?

Jürgen



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