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Subject: Re: Deep Shredder vs. Vladimir Kramnik ... what thinking the programmers of

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 11:38:23 04/14/01

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On April 14, 2001 at 13:59:47, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 14, 2001 at 06:31:18, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>it is a very interesting match.
>>World Champion Vladimir Kramnik vs. Computer World Champion 1996, 1999, 2000 and
>>IPCCC Champion 2000, 2001 Shredder.
>>
>>I don`t believe that a winner from a living room tournament can play against WM
>>Vladmir Kramnik. The "Donald Duck" qualifikation in a "Micky Mouse" tournament
>>is not interesting.
>>
>>Compare to:
>>Frank Quisinsky play a WinBoard tourney at home and the winner can play against
>>Kasparov :-))
>>
>>Shredder won all important tournaments and I think it is not a question which
>>program can / must play against Vladimir Kramnik.
>>
>>The question for me is now:
>>If Enrique play a quallification tournament I can`t believe that the TOP
>>programmer will start on this tournament. In the regular tournaments no program
>>can beat Shredder after now 33 games. So I think for the top programmers is also
>>clear which program must play against Vladimir Kramnik.
>>
>>Now we will see ...
>>I lose my interest on computer chess if I see that Shredder can`t not play
>>directly against Vladimir Kramnik.
>>
>>But interesting is:
>>After the big event Shredder vs. Kramnik a living room tournament is good enough
>>for play after the game 1 blitz game against Vladimir Kramnik :-))
>>
>>What thinking the members of CCC.
>
>
>I think that no program should play against kramnik before proving that it can
>beat weaker players.
>
>I think that a better idea is to play 6 game match at tournament time control
>between
>the top 10 programs and good human grandmasters(elo between 2600 and 2700)
>
>I suggest that the decision about the top programs that are invited can be based
>on a swiss tournament of 15 rounds when everybody is invited.
>
>The programs that can prove that they can beat a player above 2600 in a match at
>tournament time control may get a player with rating above 2700 like anand and
>only if they win again a 6 games match they will have the right to play kramnik.
>
>Uri


Hi Uri,

like your idea, better 2 good human grandmasters :-)

On the other hand, why we are playing a computer chess world championchip?
When I read here the messages I thinking we don`t need a computer chess world
champion.

Best
Frank



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