Author: Tony Werten
Date: 02:51:55 08/04/04
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On August 04, 2004 at 04:07:10, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >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. Yes Gerd, you should be ashamed. How about a "ICGA WORLD programs beginning with the letter X CHAMPIONSHIP" ? Tony > >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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