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Subject: Re: Next world champion vs computer match!

Author: Terry Giles

Date: 04:49:40 04/29/04

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On April 29, 2004 at 06:03:56, Jouni Uski wrote:

>I don't know if this is discussed previously here, but anyway:
>
>"China's women's world chess champion Zhu Chen will take on a Chinese-made super
>laptop in early June for a two-game contest.
>
>The human vs machine contest is the first of its kind in China and a female
>version of the famous showdown between Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov
>against IBM computers.
>
>Zhu Chen will play against the Unisplendour Star laptop developed by Tsinghua
>Unisplendour on June 8th and 12th in Beijing.
>
>The laptop, claimed to be one of the world's most powerful chess-playing
>notebook computers, will be released in May. And the contest will surely give it
>enormous publicity."
>
>Which program?? I think any program from SSDF top 40 will be enough to Zhen :-)
>
>Jouni

Interesting, but I think a 'female version' of Kasparov v IBM's Deep Blue, would
be Judith Polgar v Shredder 8 (running on a multi-processor PC) and at least six
games!



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