Author: Chessfun
Date: 11:00:58 04/17/01
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On April 17, 2001 at 07:15:47, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On April 16, 2001 at 23:08:29, Chessfun wrote: > >>And what to do when you can't reach agreement with Shredder....look elsewhere. > >Then you find a challenger by qualification, where you name the conditions for >being eligible and adhere to the ICCA rules. The only common condition mentioned >so far is SMP capability. There have been no announcement of such an >arrangement. Other rules were also proposed see the same Millennium link you published earlier. >>How many games was that, that were played? >>Im sure the number is going to be convincing. >>And actually it won a tournament it didn't beat all individual programs. > >The number of games is irrelevant if it's a BGN Champion vs. ICCA Champion >arrangement. Besides, it's a match with tournament conditions AFAIK, so the >merits of autoplay games conducted by the commercial version are less important. >The Shredder+SMK combination is the current tournament champion. The Shredder+SMK combination as far as I know won't be allowed. Plus the number of games arn't irrelevant, it's totally relevant to the whole concept of which is better. It's a match word it any way you choose to make it seem like a tournament, but it's still a match. A match that has a number of elements absent from regular events. Sarah.
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