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Subject: Re: First People vs Computers World Chess Team Championship

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 11:53:06 08/29/04

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On August 29, 2004 at 11:02:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 29, 2004 at 10:48:53, Pierre Bourget wrote:
>
>>http://www.ajedrezbilbao.com/FestivalEN.htm
>>
>>http://www.hydrachess.com/main.cfm?file=cfm/news_show.cfm&id=108
>
>Not only is the name "World Championship" completely ludicrous, it
>can't possibly be the first either. The AEGON tournament existed
>over 10 years ago...
>
>--
>GCP

not exactly.
AEGON tornaments never were team world championships.

"I People vs Computers World Chess Team Championship"
in Bilbao is sanctioned by the ICGA, the word "Team" was explicitly requested by
David Levy. Chrilly's note in CSSF "that according to Frederic F., Shredder is
not experiencend enough against humans" is also quite interesting.

Gerd



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