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Subject: Re: Why no computer at 2001 Corus-Wijk aan Zee?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:16:44 10/13/00

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On October 13, 2000 at 01:42:54, David Blackman wrote:

>On October 12, 2000 at 04:34:41, Mark Schreiber wrote:
>
>>Did anybody try to enter a computer into the category 19 2001 Corus-Wijk aan Zee
>>tournament? If Millennium 2000 or anybody else thinks a computer can beat the
>>world champion, it should first qualify by winning a category 19 or higher
>>event.
>
>Maybe if anybody thinks their computer can win a category 19 or higher, they
>should first beat the world champion in a match. Getting a computer match
>against a world champion is difficult but apparently can be done. It's been done
>twice. Getting a computer into a category 19 or higher probably can't be done.
>If you have a million or so US$ for sponsorship, you could probably get a
>computer into a tournament of that strength, but you probably couldn't persuade
>FIDE to rate it, or give it a category.

Fide is not important.
The average of the rating of the players is the important thing to decide about
the category of the tournament.

I think that Deep Junior played in at least category 19 tournament but I am not
sure about the definition of category 19.

If you use the fide definition then a match against the world champoion was
never done because kasparov was not the fide champion at the time that he played
against deep blue or Deeper blue.

>
>The strongest tournament a computer has played in was the last Netherlands
>championship. There was much controversy there, and i doubt it will happen
>again.

The strongest tournament that a computer played was the tournament when Deep
Junior did 50%(kramnik,Anand,Leko were part of the players in this tournament).

Uri



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