Author: blass uri
Date: 00:25:45 07/18/00
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On July 18, 2000 at 01:01:08, Steve wrote: >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. kasparov is not the fide champion. The fide champion is khalifman. Dan corbit meant to say that Deep Junior finished ahead of him. Fide considers the fide champion as the world champion. I think that fide is a joke and kasparov thinks the same(he was not even playing in the fide championship). Uri
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