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Subject: Re: More Prizes for Morovic-Ferret

Author: Leon Stancliff

Date: 02:07:42 08/11/98

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On August 10, 1998 at 12:54:51, blass uri wrote:

>
>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.

You may well be right Uri. Junior 5 has some good credentials. Which tournament
are you talking about when you say Junior 5 defeated Rebel 10? Or was this in a
tournament? I did not mean to leave out other programs that might play at over
2500. I simply wanted to make the point that the top programs can play with the
top GMs in the U.S. at action chess and running at 400 Mhz.
>
>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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