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Subject: Re: Does anyone know the hardware for the X3D match?

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 11:51:05 11/06/03

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On November 06, 2003 at 14:37:20, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On November 06, 2003 at 11:03:33, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>
>>I just ask on the chessninja forum :
>>http://www.chessninja.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000079;p=3
>>
>>and Mig respond very kindly :
>>
>>Mig
>>Member # 1
>>Icon 1 posted 06 November, 2003 10:11 November 06, 2003 08:11 AM
>>
>>We (speaking in my ChessBase role today..) have the machine now and the full
>>specs will be released at http://www.x3dchess.com very soon, probably today.
>>
>>I believe five-piece tablebases are all that are allowed in the rules, something
>>that has been true in the last two big man-machine matches I was part of
>>(Kramnik-Fritz in Bahrain and Kasparov-Junior last January). Not that the
>>currently available six-piece sets would be very practical anyway.
>
>It hasn't been updated on the x3dchess site yet, but I'm a bit anxious to find
>out after I did find the following:
>
>"The X3D Fritz Garry Kasparov is facing is the strongest computer chess machine
>ever created."
>
>Quite a bold statement.  :)
>
>-elc.

Hmm.  DB is in the Smithsonian here in DC.  Bring Fritz X3D over and we can play
a match, I am sure the Smithsonian guards won't mind.  ;)

- Chris



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