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Subject: Re: Claim on ChessBase homepage

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 06:44:49 07/17/01

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On July 17, 2001 at 09:38:05, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>The ChessBase homepage is pointing to an article that claims:
>
>'The maker of chessprograms ChessBase from Hamburg has won
>a grandmaster tournament in Argentine with a new version
>of their chessprogram ChessTiger.
>This is the first time a commercially available program
>succeeds in doing this.'
>
>(translation mine)
>
>Is this correct? I thought that this had happened before,
>but perhaps I as mistaken?

PConners won a tournament AFAIK, but I can't remember the category or the number
of GMs. Anyways, the score was good enough for a norm IIRC. PConners isn't a
commercial program, so they might still be right in their claim.

Mogens.



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