Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:15:35 01/15/02
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On January 15, 2002 at 15:06:40, John Merlino wrote: >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 Or you can just go here: www.it.ro/ccc_search/ccc.php?art_id=167010 jm
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