Author: KarinsDad
Date: 10:12:27 01/26/99
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On January 26, 1999 at 12:36:57, Bill wrote: Well, that was clear as mud. Maybe it should just be called Babble instead of Babelfish. Thanks for the translation anyway Bill. KarinsDad :) >Here is the Babelfish Translation via a simple copy & paste > > > > CHESS > > Set on red > > A set class player shocks the experts with a sensational performance > explosion. Did it geschummelt with computer assistance? > > Germany has a new genius. Beside Goethe, Beethoven and Einstein >Clemens > ALL who man will arrive shortly as a top executive teutonischen >Denkertums at > world-wide fame. Presupposed that its phaenomenale performance came >with > the Boeblinger open with fair means. > > With the chess tournament in the Swabian one ALL who man, managed 55, >a > singular feat. The amateur of the SK Memmingen 1907, so far even in >the > domestic set class never as an exception talent been noticeable, >occupied > briefly before Silvester with four top players the first workstation >and took 1660 > Marks of premium. > > The triumph applies with experts as sensation, so uniquely, as if >Helmut Kohl > would have won with the German championships in the stabhochsprung. >With > the play strength of the Memmingers a workstation under the first 100 >of 309 > users would have been already an enormous success. > > ALL who man keeps himself rather constant for years at 1925 Elo >points a > performance level, which each moderately talented humans with some >exercise > achieve. In Boeblingen however its presentation corresponded to >suddenly > 2630 Elo points. > > With this value, permanently furnished, the hero, who came from the >set class, > would be one of the best German players and in the world rank list >under the > first 40. The century talent Garri Kasparow holds the highest Elo >number ever > achieved with 2825. > > ALL who man explains himself its wondrous thrust simply: " I played >the > tournament of my life. That was much luck, as with roulette: All set >on black, I > as only on red. " > > The airy assertion is able to convince observers not quite. The fact >that a > moderate player with much luck defeats times a professional may still >concern. > From a performance explosion, which persists nine portions, however >nothing is > well-known in chess history. In the opposite: With the age the play >quality > decreases according to experience. > > All nonsense, counters ALL who man. Since it is no longer employed, >it plays > remote chess and operates on a participation at the senior world >championship. > Daily train he four hours, last the malicious Sweschnikow version. > > Connoisseurs of computer programs discovered Hamburg software >workshop > Chessbase into ALL who man play meanwhile astonishing parallels to >the most > popular German chess program " Fritz " from that. The Tueftler of the >company > after-played ALL who man portions with her present point version >Fritz 5,32 and > " magnificently amused themselves, because we rediscovered, say our >baby " > Chessbase founder Frederic Friedel. > > " (Friedel), suggested with the test the software would never play >the even > brilliant courses of ALL who man, " one normal humans. It was >particularly > suspicious that ALL who man before its victory announced Sergej >Kalinitschew > (SV Luebeck) uebermuetig against the German large master: " matte in >eight > courses ". > > When the world elite meets, at present with the tournament in the >Dutch Wijk > aan Zee, which analyzed questionable position, " fallow spontaneous > amusement out ", reports the Indian top player Viswanathan Anand. >None the > international Topkraefte discovered the matte; Fritz against it found >the courses > in one minute, to 15 seconds. > > Chess actually loads to the Cyper Doping in. Since world champion >lost > Kasparow 1997 against the IBM Superrechner " Deep Blue ", the fight >is > decided. In the meantime commercial software on a computer of the >Discounter > on world-masterly level plays. In addition a few electronics sections >from the > Spy Shop, somewhat criminal energy and the layman plays point chess. > > A mini camera, approximately in the tie, transmits the current >position to an > assistant in the auditorium or on a close hotel room. Since ALL who >man is > often to have murmured during his portions, a transmittal could have >taken > place also by microphone. > > The aid types the data and gets immediately the optimal course >supplied. This > can be transmitted now with few impulses, approximately over tiny >senders in > the ear or recipients under the clothes. The first impulses can >indicate for > example the letters, a second series the zahlenreihe, third the >course: Three > impulses break five impulses break six impulses would mean about >farmer > c5-c6. > > Concerned by the possibilities for the abuse " most ", Kasparow >recruits for > years for " Advanced Chess ": Each player is to use computers and >software of > its selection and to be allowed during the portion to analyze. With >large weapon > equality, so the Russian, became in the long run nevertheless humans >spirit > obsiegen. > > For ALL who man next appearance, in March in bath Woerishofen, > recommends to let Friedel, " each ingenious course " explain by the >amateur > player " plausibly ". The suspected one against it threatens with " >legal steps " > against everyone, which zichtigt it the fraud. > > Its sensation success is to be owed only to its persistent training, >among other > things also with software from Hamburg. Since 1989 ALL who man, >acquires > customer number 21048, regularly the newest version of Fritz. *** > TRANSLATION ENDS HERE *** > > HAJO SCHUMACHER > > DER SPIEGEL 4/1999 - Vervielfältigung nur mit Genehmigung des > SPIEGEL-Verlags > > > > [ Home | Der Spiegel | Netzwelt | Reuters | Sport | >Kultur extra | Spiegel TV ] > [ Spiegel special | Service/Suchen | Lycos | Yahoo! | >Shop | Forum | E-Mail ] > > > > > > > > > >On January 25, 1999 at 22:17:55, Jeff Anderson wrote: > >>Could you possibly post the article with the altavista translation here? For >>some bizarre reason I cannot highlight the entire article with netscape. It >>would be of great interest to everyone here. >>Jeff >> >>On January 25, 1999 at 10:07:23, Manfred Rosenboom wrote: >> >>>On January 25, 1999 at 08:34:38, Jürgen Hartmann wrote: >>> >>>>The German Newsmagazine "Der Spiegel" today reports a funny story: Mr. >>>>Allwermann, an Elo 1925 amateur of age 55 has won a nine-round 2h/40 swiss >>>>tournament and achieved a performance of 2630. >>> >>>You will find an online version of this article at >>> >>>http://www.spiegel.de/sport/pool/schach_spiegel_sp.html >>> >>>If you pass this URL to the BabelFish at >>> >>> http://babelfish.altavista.com/ >>> >>>You can get (at least a readable) Engish translation. >>> >>>Manfred
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