Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 18:11:10 10/13/00
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On October 13, 2000 at 04:56:33, Mark Schreiber wrote: >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 These are not swiss tournaments where anyone can enter, these are closed round robin events. Simply put, they were not invited. JW
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