Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 23:43:56 08/08/04
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On August 09, 2004 at 02:06:28, Uri Blass wrote: >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. That was also a surprise for the organizers. >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 As far as we know there were no such participants. >and I >remember that I read about money prizes so I believed that people will come with >big hardware to pick the prize. The prize money was not astronomously high: First rank was 500 ChessBase Ducates, which means 50 Euro second rank 25 Euro, third rank 12,50 Euro -- all in ChessBase currency. The tournament is just a first attempt to introduce Freestyle Blitz events on playchess.com . Probably, further tournaments with increased prize amounts are to come. >If normal Fritz8 even not deep Fritz8 could win the tournament then it means >that probably nobody took the tournament seriously The people who were there took it seriously. Hoewever, it is not a trivial task to play strong interactive chess (human+computer teams) at 7 min + 2sec/move. Ingo Althofer.
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