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Subject: Re: Answer from Levy

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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