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Subject: Re: New Milestone of Computer Chess

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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