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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