Author: Steve
Date: 22:01:08 07/17/00
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On July 16, 2000 at 19:00:25, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. The Deep Junior team has a lot to be proud of. But their program didn't finish ahead of the world champion; Kasparov wasn't even playing in the tournament.
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