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Subject: Re: More Prizes for Morovic-Ferret

Author: blass uri

Date: 09:54:51 08/10/98

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On August 10, 1998 at 12:45:13, Leon Stancliff wrote:

>How sad!
>
>The Aegon tournament bit the dust. The Harvard Cup followed suit. Now Morovic
>wishes to delay indefinitely and reduce the size of the Ferret match to no more
>than four games.
>
>My opinion is that Morovic got a better look at Ferret than he had gotten
>previously. By shortening the match he could then claim the number of games was
>too small to be meaningful! Anand does have to be given credit for going through
>with his match against Rebel. The GMs seem to be trembling in their boots. Bruce
>is absolutely right in his decision to call off the whole matter if Morovic does
>not show up this evening. Ferret would have scored at least 2 out of 6. It might
>have gone 3-3.
>
>I am convinced the top six computer programs are now playing at over 2500 when
>operated at 400 Mhz, and at a time limit of 40 moves in 120 minutes. We need
>another Harvard Cup matching any six grandmasters in the U.S.A. against the
>following programs at time limits of 40 in 1 hour.
>	Rebel 10
>	Nimzo 98
>	Hiarcs 6
>	Fritz 5
>	Genius 5
>	MChess Pro 7.1
>A couple of good alternates would be Chessmaster 5500 and Shredder 2.0.

Junior5 won Rebel10  1.5:0.5
Junior5 had a better hardware but the difference was not significant.
Junior5 is a better program than the world microcomputer champion Junior4.5
Junior4.5 won Mchesspro and fritz5 in this tournament
I think Junior5 should be in the list of the top six computer programs.

Uri
>
>By the way. These six programs would have a plus score against any six GMs in
>the U.S. at action chess today.
>
>Leon



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