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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