Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 02:58:12 01/15/02
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On January 14, 2002 at 19:54:17, John Merlino wrote:
>On January 14, 2002 at 18:56:05, Edwin Wigmore wrote:
>
>>The recent tourney held by Kurt shows that CM8000 is a strong engine against
>>computers. Does anyone have any information on how it does against Grandmasters
>>or very strong human players?
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Edwin
>
>The only games I know of in which the program played against a GM was in a demo
>of CM8000 at the Kansas City Super-Nationals last year. We have a "contest" open
>to anybody, in which they can win a free copy of the program if they can draw
>the Chessmaster personality. The time control is 1/sec per move, meaning that CM
>AVERAGES one second per move, and the human has as long as he/she wants.
>Pondering IS on, though.
>
>A GM named Julio Becerra (from what I was told, at one time the Cuban National
>Champion and currently one of the strongest blitz players on ICC) played twice.
>He lost the first time, and then took the program seriously the second time. He
>was able to acheive a tough draw in the second game. Sadly, because children's
>fingers are faster than mine, I was not able to save any of the games before the
>next kid in line pressed "New Game". :-(
>
>jm
GM Becerra won twice the Cuban championship [1995 and 1998].It is indeed
a pity that those two games against CM are lost forever. JAFM
Please see ==> http://www.ceniai.inf.cu/ajedrez/maestros/becerra.html
[in Spanish]
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