Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 08:48:09 04/21/01
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On April 21, 2001 at 06:07:21, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >BGN offers postponement to allow Shredder to compete That is rather unrealistic if you use some common sense. >Brain Games Network, the organiser of the 2000 World Chess Championship, >will stage the first Man v Machine Championship since 1997 later this year. Isn't Kasparov holder of that title given the departure of Deep Blue :-)). >In order to find a program to challenge world champion Vladimir Kramnik the >top four software programs have been invited to play in an eliminator. I didn't know that Deep Blue was a software program. My understanding is that it consists of quite a bit of hardware as well. > So >far, Fritz and Junior have accepted, while the IBM Deep Blue team have >declined. The organisers, BGN, are still hoping that Shredder will also >compete and have offered to postpone the start of the tournament in >Cadaques, Spain, to allow Shredder more time to accept the invite. Here is >the text of the latest invite to the Shredder team. Well, I'm glad that the most of the championship and "strongest program" nonsense have been removed, except for "Man v Machine Championship". But I think I can live with that ;-). This makes it an ordinary exhibition event, so they (BGN) can obviously do whatever they want. Regards, Mogens
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