Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 12:58:35 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 14:48:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >See Yassar's comments for FIDE: >http://www.insidechess.com/pubmessage.html > >Now, move to computer chess. There seems to be a horrible lack of organization >and agreement. > >It seems that people will claim champions out of thin air. > >It seems that the chess programmers can be put at odds with each other. > >It seems that the ICCA lacks the clout to keep things honest. > >Are there any solutions? I'm not proposing any since they don't spring to my >mind. I am hopeful that someone may have real solutions to the problems facing >computer chess. > >My real hope is for agreement and unity. Unfortunately, I don't have any good, >concrete suggestions. It's not a big deal. The ICCA is our sanctioning group, but they aren't aggressive about bringing in money or big sponsors. They run the journal and do subsistence-level tournaments every few years, which is a bit wimpy, but if anyone wants to help them change that I'm sure they'd be happy to let you. The organization is a little weird but it doesn't fundamentally suck. Fide has much worse problems, and the schism between Fide and Kasparov is what brought on this Brain Games thing. This human vs computer thing is an offshoot of that. There was no possibility that it could be done in conjunction with the ICCA since Levy and Keene are on the outs with each other. There is no competing organization being formed here. This is just Keene looking for an exotic animal for Kramnik to beat on in a gladiator arena. I get no sense that he is trying to establish a permanent computer chess presence, this is just another example of someone combining a strong human, an organizer, and a computer chess company, in an effort to bring in a lot of money for the organizer and the human, and some easy publicity for the computer chess company. bruce
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