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Subject: Re: New Milestone of Computer Chess

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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