Author: Murat
Date: 19:51:53 10/06/03
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The tournament was directed by Jacquest Dutka, a chess master and mathematician (best known for his computation of the square root of two to 1,000,000 digits), and was a huge success. With hundereds of spectators and considerable press coverage. CHESS 3.0 played solidly, winning all three games and the first United States Computer Chess Championship. The tournament favorite, Hans Berliner's J.Biit (Just Because It Is There) finished in third place, losing to CHESS 3.0, and drawing with fourth place finisher COCO III in a game that became a famous example of endgame ineptitude. Second place was taken by the Daly CP, a "bare-bones" implementation of the Shannon type A strategy running on a minicomputer at the tournament site. SCHACH finished fifth, and last place went to the Marsland CP, which fell victim in its first game to a program "bug" in its position-scoring function, which led the program to choose between the best move and the worst move more or less at random. Above text was taken from the book "Computer Chess" by David E. Welsh Best regards Murat
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