Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:01:51 04/14/01
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On April 14, 2001 at 13:26:12, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
You should first mention that you are quoting here the Millennium website.
>It’s a well-known fact: the German chess program SHREDDER is not only the
>reigning, Absolute (we get it) Computer Chess World Champion and a three times
>Microcomputer World Champion but, with a recent series of additional tournament
>wins, SHREDDER has been beyond any doubt world’s most successful(computer) chess
>tournament program over the past 5 years.
When I read this, I feel like I should retire right now from computer chess. It
sounds so hopeless to try to do anything against such a monster program.
:) :) :)
> With this in mind, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
>of Düsseldorf, in late 2000 challenged the winner of the London Braingames World
>Championship tournament to a match man against computer. Following Vladimir
>Kramnik’s surprise win over Garry Kasparov, we were informed at the beginning of
>this year that ‘Braingames’ has come to an agreement with the Government of
>Bahrain, where in October 2001 a tournament is to take place between the two
>world champions, Kramnik and SHREDDER. Negotiations regarding the details of
>this match have been going on for some time.
>It came therefore as no small surprise when Stefan Meyer-Kahlen received an
>invitation for a so-called ‘Braingames Computer Chess World Championship’ which
>– out of the blue – was to serve as a qualifying round for the match against
>Kramnik. Furthermore (and much to Stefan’s astonishment), this qualification
>tournament was to be held in closed session, ie excluding the public as well as
>the programmers concerned, in the private residence of a Spanish computer chess
>tester. As an entry fee, each programmer was to pay no less than US$ 5,000. It
>is quite clear that the reigning Absolute Computer World Champion has no
>interest whatsoever defending his title at this kind of ‘living-room
>tournament’. An official title can be defended only at a regular and public
>World Championship tournament under the auspices of an official and independent
>organisation, such as the ICCA.
Notice how the author very eleganty avoids to mention any other top chess
program involved in the tournament.
That's art. :)
Sounds like JUST mentionning them would be a serious threat to the reputation of
Millennium's baby, at least in the writer's mind.
>Is there any confirmation that the above statement is non-biased?
:) :) :) :)
Are you so new in computer chess that you can believe that something coming from
the Millennium website is unbiased? :)
Christophe
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