Author: Baldomero Garcia, Jr.
Date: 08:18:14 07/06/00
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On July 06, 2000 at 10:17:20, Eran wrote: >Why don't Fritz6, Nimzo 99, Hiarcs 732, RebelCentury, and more join in Dortmund? The issue is sponsorship money. IMO, the chess programs have no business playing along with other humans in a tournament. I'm guessing the players are getting paid just a little more in order to compensate for this unusual circumstance. There used to be an exhibition tournament named AEGON (spelling?) in which humans of various strengths played a large number of computers. It was sort of a huge Scheveningen/Swiss tournament. Unfortunately, there weren't any top GMs there. I think GM Seirawan was one of the highest rated humans that played in one of those tournaments. A different competition was the Harvard Cup, but it was at a faster time control and the human team was composed of Americans, and the size of the tournament was much smaller (I think 6 players per team, but I'm not sure). >Comparison between computer chess programs and human players would be very >interesting. Indeed. But reluctance from the top players (and players in general) make it very difficult. I do not blame the humans for not wanting to play against the computers in a regular tournament. If you check open tournaments in the U.S. I would guess 99% do not allow computers in the tournaments. And that's probably because of the resentment of some players against the computer programs. Even though the computer programs cannot win any money, they affect the status of other players and their ability to win money. What I would recommend is bringing back some sort of computer vs human exhibition in which, say, 6 of the top 10 players play against 6 of the top 10 computer in SSDF and broadcast the event over ICC or any other website. The problem? Sponsorship money. Who's going to put up a lot of money for the top players to show up for this kind of exhibition? Baldo
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