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Subject: Re: Coming matches between GMs & Computers

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 10:13:55 09/06/03

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On September 06, 2003 at 09:32:33, Uwe Meißner wrote:

>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.
>


Great stuff!  Thanks!


>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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