Author: Mark Schreiber
Date: 01:56:33 10/13/00
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On October 13, 2000 at 03:16:44, Uri Blass wrote: >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 You are referring to Dortmund 2000 Super GM tournament in July 2000. Any thoughts why Deep Junior did not enter the 2001 Corus-Wijk aan Zee tournament? The 2001 Corus-Wijk aan Zee tournament will have an average fide rating of 2713 a category 19 event. The Dortmund 2000 Super GM tournament had an average fide rating of 2702 also a category 19 event. Mark
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