Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:50:06 06/17/99
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On June 17, 1999 at 18:16:06, Mark Young wrote: >On June 17, 1999 at 13:30:43, Steven Schwartz wrote: > >>On June 17, 1999 at 13:01:23, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On June 17, 1999 at 11:52:46, Chris Carson wrote: >>> >>>>On June 17, 1999 at 11:32:58, James Robertson wrote: >>>> >>>>>According to ICC and FICS analysis, Fritz and Ferret are both ~3 pawns ahead of >>>>>Junior and Francesca, respectively. Nearly all other games have finished. >>>>> >>>>>James >>>> >>>>Wow, I guess the WCCC will be tied in a knot at 4 after 5 rounds. :) >>>> >>>>Best Regards, >>>>Chris Carson >>> >>>Congratulations and thanks to Fritz, who saved us from having to listen for the >>>next three years about how he threw a game so that Junior (another Chessbase >>>program) could be in first place by a point after 5 rounds. >>>bruce >> >>I have a faint recollection of Fidelity throwing the final game >>at some crucial computer tournament, way back when, against one >>of its own machines so that it could claim to be the winner. >> >>Triva question: anyone know the two machines that were running and >>what tournament it was? > >The answer is: Fidelity Avant Garde vs. Fidelity Elite XC. It was played in the >1985 U.S. Open Computer Chess Championship in Mobile, Alabama. > >The final position > >8/2p3kp/6b1/p3K1P1/7P/1P1B4/P7/8 w > >Fidelity Avant Garde resigned as white in this won position so Fidelity's Elite >XC (black), its then top of the line machine could take first place. > > that was one example. The early WMCCC events (where the ICCA allowed multiple entrants from the same manufacturer to reap the large entry fees) also had more than one of these (as I had posted previously). I'll try to ask "beetle" (IM Mike Valvo) on ICC.. he was the TD and talked about one or two of those events often and was quite disgusted with the whole precedure... > > >> >>Bruce, any idea? I can't remember. >>- Steve (ICD/Your Move)
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