Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 17:35:57 06/21/01
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On June 21, 2001 at 19:17:09, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On June 21, 2001 at 00:45:44, Adolfo Bormida wrote: > >> >> >>Here is the link >> >>http://www.lanacion.com.ar/01/06/18/dd_313514.asp >> >> >>The article is in spanish, but someone with better english than me may be can >>traslate ! >> >>Regards, Adolfo > > >I will Translate the essence of this article, not necessarily word by word. > >Four years after the match between the Ex Champion Kasparov vs Deep Blue in New >York, the Parallel Supercomputer which was created by a group of american >Scientists working under contract for IBM, now Argentina will be the Host >country for a similar match which will open up a new chapter between the >legendary duel the artificial brain v the natural human brain. > > > The program Created by Christophe Theron Chess Tiger 14.0, will be playing >using a conventional (Pentium III 866 Mhz), against a group of south American >Grandmasters, among them seven Argentina's players, in the IV Magistral of the >Argentine Republic, Mercorsur Cup 110° anniversary of Florida, which will start >on the 22 of Jun and it will end on the 6 of July, in the Hall of CM Salud, >Domingo F. Sarmiento 1755, in the match of Vicente Lopez. > > > The upcoming match will apply a new system of notation_similar to the one >used for Futbol (soccer) in which three points will be given for a win, one >point for a draw, and zero for each lost game. > > > The Argentinian GMs Pablo Ricardi, Oscar Panno, Alejandro Hoffman, Sergio >Slipak, Enrique Scarella, Diego Valerga and Mauricio Dorín together with the >Uruguayo Andrés Rodríguez, the Brazilians, Everaldo Matsuura and Eduardo Limp >plus the Cuban Miguel Andrés will be the human representatives and of course >Chess Tiger 14.0 (3° in the SSDF rating list), will be the playing Software by >Christophe Theron. > > > Chess Tiger 14.0, a product that is now sold under Chessbase and it was >authorized by its author Christophe Theron (will be operated by Roberto Alvarez, >representing the Argentina Firm. This will be the first time that Chess Tiger >14.0 will face a strong human competition of this Caliber using the new FIDE >time Control. Since in europe only programs like Deep Fritz from German and Deep >Junior from Israel were the only ones to compete against such a strong human >opposition of this caliber. These programs have already gained recognition by >playing chess stars such as: Anand, Shirov, Morozevich, Leko and >Adams, which are the best evidence of how strong these current Programs are >currently playing, to be allowed to play against these players. > > > The GMs will probably have to use the old trick against the Beast by >accidently turning off the PC whenever they see themselves in a losing position, >but this event will give us a better evaluation of the real strength of the >current PC Chess Software. Are they really playing at GM Strength at normal time >control, we will have the answer soon ?. > PS: my prediction is Chess Tiger will end up in 2nd or 3rd Place. > Jorge Pichard
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