Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 01:24:23 05/03/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 07:50:10, Larry Proffer wrote: >On May 02, 2001 at 06:29:56, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>Brain Games Network, the organizers of the Man vs Machine match scheduled >>for October 2001 in Bahrain, asked me to play a qualification event among the >>strongest chess programs to determine which will play Mr Kramnik. One >>important condition specified by BGN was that the programs should be able to >>run on an eight processor machine which will be used in the match in Bahrain; >>another was that the Qualifier must be concluded before the second week of >>May, in order to meet contractual agreements with the BGN world champion >>Vladimir Kramnik. > >Sounds right but muddled ordering gives a wrong impression. > >BGN wanted to make a Kramnik-program match. > >BGN wanted a pre-program match to generate publicity and interest. > >BGN do not know much about computer chess and they came from a particular >direction that led them to first Ossi, and then Chessbase. > >Ossi didn't want any competition for 'his' program. 100% win chance. > >Chessbase wanted their programs in but no others. Win chances increased. > >Chessbase proposed using Enrique as 'Linares of Computer Chess' organiser. > >Somehow SSDF became involved. SSDF have never been involved in this matter. Bertil Eklund was consulted since he has tested chessprograms for 25 years. Tony
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