Author: Michael Henderson
Date: 14:16:39 10/08/04
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On October 08, 2004 at 16:21:35, Daniel Jackson wrote: >08.10.2004 The man vs machine team chess championship in Bilbao started with a >depressing 0.5-2.5 loss for the biological systems. But in round two humans >struck back – in fact at one point they were very close to a 3:0 whitewash. The >president of the sanctioning body ICGA, David Levy, gives us a provocative >assessment of the event. > >Man vs Machine World Team Championship >in Bilbao, October 6 – 9, 2004 >This encounter between chess playing entities, biological and electronic, is >taking place in the city of Bilbao in the Basque region of Spain. It pits three >strong grandmasters against three top programs. The humans are Veselin Topalov >(Bulgaria, Elo 2757, world number five); Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine, 2710, No. >13); and Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine, 2576, who at 12 was the youngest GM in the >history of the game). > >Full Story at ChessBase.. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1947 I find these computer-human *tournaments* much more interesting than computer-human matches, which involve only 2 personalities. The tournaments demonstrate the particular weaknesses/strengths of many humans and computers at the same time. Also, outside pressure from other computers/humans seems to make everybody more dynamic. Michael
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