Author: Graham Laight
Date: 07:08:29 05/11/00
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On May 10, 2000 at 11:30:53, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >Next July, Junior will play at Dortmund, one of the strongest tournaments of the >year. Kramnik, Anand and other first rate GMs will be there too. More >information at http://www.chessbase.com/News/newsframe.htm > >Together with Ed's games and the Israeli league, we can finally get a more >precise idea of the strength of chess programs. I miss another kind of event >where programs would have to face weaker opposition, say an average of 2200 >players. Playing only high rated players can give an inflated estimate. I have to disagree! PCs have been beating IMs under tournament conditions for years! Look what Hiarcs did to Hergot (sorry if I spelled his name incorrectly) in their 6 match tournament way back in April '97! There's no place for IMs at the table against modern computers (especially not Junior with 8 processors). -g >Enrique
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