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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