Author: Uwe Meißner
Date: 06:32:33 09/06/03
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On September 05, 2003 at 14:04:21, Roy Eassa wrote: > >Been out of the loop for awhile ... what matches between GMs & computers are >scheduled in the coming weeks & months? There will also be an interesting contest in correspondence chess. The German ICCF Grandmaster Arno Nickel (2585 Elo in cc) is going to play against 6 of the world's best chess programs, that will each run on fast pc systems. The match is organised by CSS (Computerschach & Spiele, namely Dieter Steinwender) and CFC-Server (Chessfriend.com, namely Reimund Lutzenberger) and will start on 1st of October. All games will be live commentated and shown on this new correspondence chess server. Reflection time will be something like 3 or 4 days per move for each side. Nickel will not know which program is playing which game, but he can (and will) also take advice by chess engines. The computer programs play without human aid. The idea of this experiment is to show the difference between a correspondence player using engines and the engines standing alone. There was a large article CSS 4/2003 discussing the subject of correspondence chess and engines. The experiment of Uri Blass was mentioned as also the Gandalf5 match of 2002, where 4 experienced cc player (the match was organised by Ed Schroeder) did only achieve four draws, though they could use engines. Nickel aims to beat the engines 4,5 : 1,5. Most people seem to expect that he will clearly win, but there are also voices who predict a draw or a loss for Nickel. Very exciting is an offer made by Chrilly Donninger, who proposed the same type of match to Nickel vs. BRUTUS starting on December 1. Discussions took place in CSS forum (computerschach.de) and they seem to speak now about the terms and of course about money. I hope these informations will be of interest to many readers of CCC. Thank you, bye Uwe Meißner (Germany)
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