Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:06:28 08/08/04
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On August 09, 2004 at 00:31:55, Ingo Althofer wrote: >On Saturday, 7 August, the first Freestyle Blitz Tournament >(arbitrary human+computer teams) was played on the playchess.com >server. Thinking times were 7 min + 2 sec/move bonus. > >Eight teams were in: seven mixed (human+computer) and one >pure computer account. As a surprise, at the end the winner >was Vincent Bertignac who had run Fritz8 in autonomous mode. >He got 5.5 points from seven rounds, as well as runner-up >Erdogan Guenes who interacted with an experimental Deep Fritz. > >Results and pgn are available on >http://www.team-oh.de/FreestyleBlitz/index-e.htm > >Ingo Althofer. The biggest surprisefor me is to learn that there were only 8 participants. I read about this tournament but did not think about parrticipation because I assumed that I have no chance against people with 4 or 8 processors and I remember that I read about money prizes so I believed that people will come with big hardware to pick the prize. If normal Fritz8 even not deep Fritz8 could win the tournament then it means that probably nobody took the tournament seriously unless you tell me that there were some participants who used quad opteron and failed to win. Uri
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