Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 11:04:03 04/09/99
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On April 09, 1999 at 09:37:23, Chris Carson wrote: Hi Chris, what do you mean by WMCCC? It usually stands for world MICRO computer chess championship. This year there will not be independent micro championship. The micro champion will be the entry that scores higher in the WCCC, world computer chess championship. >Well what are the early choices/rankings for Computer Chess Champion? > >what about Crafty, will Bob be there on a 32 processor experimental >Dec machine running at 1GHZ/processor? > The ICCA has published the list of participants for this year's WCCC. There are 30 of them. Crafty is not going to play. >Also, I have been a long time believer that the Top Programs should >be allowed to compete for the World Chess Champion, I agree. >I wonder if any >Human GM's are up to the task of competing against the Programs this >year? I think many of them would be willing to play for a big amount of money. Remember that they are professional players and will not risk their reputation for nothing. While I do not like the situation, I fully understand their position. > How would Kamsky do? Kamsky should be very rusty by now. But after a few months of study and training, I think he can clobber any micro program and beat any program (including Deeper Blue) in a long match (20 games I am thinking). > I am interested in opinions, but I would >be more interested in real participants (GM Soltis maybe, got the >better of DBjr in one game). I loved watching Chess Genius rip the >GM's in the old PCA events (Kaspy got beat, Anand held his own). > GM's do not play for free. And those events were rapid games, not standard time controls. A grandmaster will ask a lot more money for a match at a standard time control than for a rapid match. >My opinion, Human GM would do well (top 3 finish), but would wear >down and not win the whole thing (see Kaspy vs Deeper Blue). That depends on the number of games and their frequency. Playing only three games a week (as in the old world championship matches) humans can last very long (remember that 48 game match between Kasparov and Karpov). > Several >GM participants would be better, but should play each other as well. >I think this would be a marketing dream. Intel and AMD where are you? > >Wish a GM or two would play and prove me wrong. I would love to see >the Programs go down in flames, but my opinion is the GM's would be >left burning (or at least smoldering). :) > Depends on which grandmasters you are thinking. It is very different to take ten 2550 Elo grandmasters (of which there are plenty active) than the top ten players of the world. >Best Regards, >Chris Carson
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