Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:50:50 04/16/01
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On April 15, 2001 at 18:44:06, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>
>Here is some news about the upcoming event:
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>- We invited 4 programs: DB and the Deeps of Fritz, Shredder and Junior.
>"We" is BGN and Enrique Irazoqui, with Bertil Eklund as consultant.
>
>- DB is obvious. Fritz has been leading everything in computer chess, short
>of a Swiss open of 7 rounds that receives the name "world championship".
>Shredder is strong and got the 2 last titles, whatever they mean, although
>it never topped the SSDF list, never won long tournaments. Junior is also
>strong, was first in the SSDF list about a year ago, won some long
>tournaments, achieved a PR of 2702 last year in Dortmund. The rest is either
>not strong enough or not SMP ready, which means they don't have a chance and
>their inclusion would only increase randomness.
4 programs is very narrow. In fact, I think it is clear that the choice of
these four looks very tainted to many people (I do not judge whether that is so
or not).
In a Swiss format tournament, doubling the size of the field adds only one more
round.
Deep Blue is a commical invitation, because you *KNOW* they are not going to
come. In other words, you invited only 3.
Here is the list I would use:
1. Shredder
2. Tiger
3. Junior
4. Fritz
5. ChessMaster
6. Nimzo
7. Hiarcs
8. Crafty[*]
[*] That is, if Crafty could get a fully loaded 32 CPU Alpha machine from Compaq
-- in which case I am sure that it would win both the computer playoff and also
the tournament. If it were just the quad xeon, then perhaps some other program
such as Gandalf or Rebel would be equally qualified [perhaps even Insomniac].
If you *really* want to know which program is qualified, you should play a lot
of games {as you well know} but I don't think that is realistic.
If you have 8 entrants, and they play two games in one day (one as white and one
as black against a single opponent) it will still be very quick to decide upon a
suitable opponent for Kramnik.
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