Author: Pete Galati
Date: 11:39:21 06/02/00
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On June 02, 2000 at 11:33:30, Pete R. wrote: >On June 02, 2000 at 00:18:23, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On June 02, 2000 at 00:06:40, Rick Luce wrote: >> >>>Junior 6 is slated to participate in the Dortmund tournament in July. How well >>>do you think it will do? My guess is that Junior will fare poorly against such >>>a strong field and could easily finish last. >>> >>>By my calculation, Fritz performed at about 2590 level at the Dutch >>>Championship, if you discount the two games which were essentially forfeit wins. >>> If Junior performs at a similar level, it could be in trouble. The competition >>>at Dortmund will be much stronger including the likes of Khalifman, Anand, >>>Huebner, Leko etc. >>> >>>Also, has there been any indication that any of the GMs will refuse to play >>>Junior? >>> >>>-Rick >> >>Do you have a link for a site with info about the tournament? Which Junior? >>What hrdware will it run on. My unqualified opinion, not knowing any answers to >>those questions anyhow, is that Junior will do better than Fritz did. Just a >>gut feeling. > >I think that Junior would have done perhaps better than Fritz did in the Dutch >Championship using this hardware, but this is a stronger field so we can expect >Junior to fare worse. Still it will be very interesting indeed and should help >assess the strength of programs. It's apparent that the Junior team has a good >relationship with Kasparov, and it stands to reason that they would continue to >offer the services of Junior for Kasparov to use for his home preparations in >exchange for tuning advice. Just speculation, but who would have Kasparov using >their machine and not take any chance for feedback? I would expect probably both these tournaments to have a place in the history of computer Chess. I may be wrong. It seems like there are allot of significant things happening within the last year that're easy to take for granted, but aren't all that minor of events. Pete
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