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Subject: Re: Answer from Levy

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 05:43:30 08/04/04

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On August 04, 2004 at 05:51:55, Tony Werten wrote:

>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.

I am ;-(

>
>How about a "ICGA WORLD programs beginning with the letter X CHAMPIONSHIP" ?
>

Sponsored by X3D!
XiniX and XXXX even start and end with X.
Xenarbor, X Tempo, Xie Long...
Favorite is X3D-fritz!

Gerd

>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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