Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:00:25 07/16/00
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On July 16, 2000 at 15:09:33, Mike S. wrote: >P.ConNers has won the category 11 GM tournament in Lippstadt, scoring 7,5 points >from 11 games, ahead of the equally scoring Zbynek Hracek. Third is Maja >Tchiburdanidse. With the alternative scoring numbers used in Lippstadt, the >final result is: > >10th GM-Tournament Lippstadt 2000: >---------------------------------- >1. P.ConNers 21 >2. Hracek, Zbynek 20 >3. Tschiburdanidse, Maja 19 >4. Müller, Karsten 18 >5. Slobodjan, Roman 17 >6. Speelman, Jonathan 16 >7. Dautov, Rustem 15 >8. Schlosser, Philipp 13 >9. Luther, Thomas 10 >10. Wehmeier, Stefan 7 >10. Dr. Brenke, Andreas 7 >12. Mc Shane, Luke 3 > >(win 3 points, draw 1 point) > >According to their website http://people.freenet.de/lsvturm/gm2000.htm , >the elo performance of P.ConNers was 2657. > >Is this the first time a computer won a standard GM tournament? I think yes. >Party time folks! A black day for computer haters, isn't it? I think Deep Junior's achievement is far more astounding considering the crowd DJ faced. Deep Junior placed ahead of the world champion. I feel fairly certain that a computer has never done that before at tournament conditions and time controls. If I was on the DJ advertizing firm, I would tout this showing on all the software boxes, underlined, in bold, and with exclamation points.
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