Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 04:09:54 10/07/00
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On October 07, 2000 at 03:51:38, Lonnie Cook wrote:
>To all,
>This quote is found on https://www.computerchess.com/news_e.html#20
>
>"SHREDDER challenges Garry Kasparov
>
>MILLENNIUM 2000 – a Munich based company which has been known as European market
>leader for computer chess products for many years – is representing SHREDDER,
>the reigning Computer Chess World Champion for all types of computers (including
>mainframes and parallel processor machines).
>This title was gained at the official World Championship 1999 in Paderborn
>(Germany), organised by the International Computer Chess Association (ICCA).
>
>The program by the young German software engineer Stefan Meyer-Kahlen at the
>same time also won the title of Microcomputer World Chess Champion for 1999 and
>retained this title in London during August 2000. It can't be disputed that
>SHREDDER is the world's most successful chess program of the past few years. For
>that reason it's clear that SHREDDER has earned the right to challenge the
>world's most successful human chess player of recent years. We therefore hereby
>challenge World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov to a match with the World
>Championship title at stake.
>
>All details regarding the playing conditions can be at Mr. Kasparov's choice:
>the date for the match, the number of games, the host city and venue, the rate
>of play, etc.. All these points and others can be decided by Mr. Kasparov
>because the SHREDDER team respects the needs of world's strongest chess player."
>
>I respect Stefan and his program but how much money are they willing to put up?
This has already been posted here a couple of days ago, and has produced some
reactions.
Christophe
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