Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:06:40 01/15/02
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On January 15, 2002 at 05:58:12, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: >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] You can read a little more of my thoughts about the whole event by using the CCC Search Engine and looking for "Becerra". jm
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