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Subject: Re: Claim on ChessBase homepage

Author: Andreas Herrmann

Date: 09:56:17 07/17/01

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On July 17, 2001 at 09:44:49, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>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.

The category was 11.

Andreas



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