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Subject: Re: Answer from Levy

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 01:07:10 08/04/04

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On August 04, 2004 at 02:15:14, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:

>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 !


No it was not good - the whole issue is too serious
to make sarcastic jokes about, sorry for that.

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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