Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 23:15:14 08/03/04
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On August 03, 2004 at 15:41:17, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >On August 03, 2004 at 12:29:48, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On August 02, 2004 at 20:51:56, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>Subject: Re: wereldkampioenschap ICGA - 3 deelnemers? >>Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:55:04 +0100 >> >>Hi Vincent >> >>Thank you for pointing this out to us. In fact the official title of the >>event is "Man vs Machine World Chess Team Championship". I agreed this title >>with the Bilbao organisers when I visited them last year to discuss the >>event and I confirmed it to them in writing on September 15th 2003. >> >>2004 is the first year for the team event and, if it is a publicity success, >>it is expected to grow from year to year, with the teams on each side >>becoming larger. >> >>I have pointed out the error to the people in Bilbao and have asked them to >>insert the word "Team". I have explained to them that the ICGA has already >>designated Kasparov vs Deep Junior and Kasparov vs Deep Fritz as individual >>world championships for man vs machine. >> >>Kind regards, >> >>David Levy >> > >It is fine if the IGCA, namely David Levy tries to establish some (hu)man versus >computer matches. But IMHO the title "World Championship" deserves qualified but >not arbitrary choosen participants by commercial interests, at least for the >programs. > >Seems, as they made the contract, Brutus/Hydra was still chessbase. >So the chessbase team excluding Shredder is now a chessbase/pal-group team. > >What about an "ICGA Author vs Machine World Chess Team Championship"? >Diepeveen/Zwanzger/Mayer-Kahlen against (or with) Jonny/Shredder/Diep ;-) >(not playing against own programs?) > >Gerd Good suggestion there Gerd ! I would like to see the authors of strong programs (preferably the winners of WCCC :) ) play against their own programs ! - Note : no last minute dumbing down of programs allowed ;) If nothing , it might tell us humans how to combat their programs :( - too tough to beat most of them ... even with book and egtb and pondering disabled and at timeodds :( Mridul
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