Author: blass uri
Date: 02:57:58 08/11/98
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On August 11, 1998 at 05:07:42, Leon Stancliff wrote: >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? This was before the tournament Rebel10-Anand Rebel10 on pentium266Mh played 2 games against Junior on pentium333Mh The first game(2 hours per game when Rebel was white was draw and the second game 1 hour per game Junior won) I think it was in 1.7 and I think the games are in Rebel's homepage Uri > 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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