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Subject: Re: WORLD MACHINE VS. MACHINE CHECKER QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT (NT)

Author: Jerry Doby

Date: 16:51:50 03/14/02

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On March 14, 2002 at 18:42:10, martin fierz wrote:

>aloha!
>
>sorry for trespassing in the computer chess club with a computer checkers
>message, but i thought maybe there are other checkers programmers posting and
>reading here?! here's a mail i got from mac banks.
>
>cheers
>  martin
>
>
>
>Hi George and Everyone,
>
>I want to advertise this machine vs. machine checker tourney
>as much as possible so I will appreciate anyone on this list
>that has a web page or newsletter to help me out in this effort
>by printing the info listed below.  I am thanking all of you
>for help in this matter.
>
>WORLD MACHINE VS. MACHINE CHECKER QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT
>
>
>A world Qualifying Machine vs. Machine Checker tournament will be held in
>Las Vegas, Nevada
>during the period 2-10 August, 2002 at the 4 Queens Hotel. To enter this
>tournament, email George
>Miller at george@egroeg.freeserve.co.uk prior to 30 March, 2002. Each
>checker program that enters
>must be the original work of the entering developers.  Each entry is  a
>computing system and one or
>more humans who programmed it. At least one of the program developers must
>attend the championship
>to operate the program. The winner of this qualifying checker tourney will
>have the opportunity to challenge the World Machine Checker Champion program
>"Chinook" .  After the numer of participants
>are determined, a set of rules will be sent to the participants as well as
>the number of games that will be
>played and other information that is necessary.  The type of checkers played
>will be the 3 move American
>restricted checkers that uses the 8 x 8 squares and this tourney is open to
>all  program developers who
>meets the criteria listed above.  For more information on this tourney
>please email Mac Banks at
>mbanks36@hotmail.com.




 Question;  Are Computer Checkers Programs Stronger then the strongest Humans?
Have they achieved grandmaster status? thanks



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