Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:24:30 11/17/99
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On November 17, 1999 at 01:18:49, Jouni Uski wrote:
>Yes, if Chess Tiger gets 2726 rating from SSDF games, it goes to
>place 4. in PCA world list (after Kramnik and BEFORE Anand). Ridiculous or ??
>
>Jouni
Of course I wasn't aware of the affiliation between the SSDF and PCA. No doubt
these are the secret matches that SSDF isn't allowed to publish. Any idea what
the complete match results between Kasparov and Mchess Pro 3.5 on a 486/66 are?
I hear he dropped a game after someone told him it was calulating 480 million
positions a second after which he tried as White a dubious 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6
3.Qf3?! (lost his queen on move 16) in order to throw it out of it's book, but
was equally furious when they (SSDF officials) later told him the operator was
only joking and it was in fact only 480 positions a second. He threatened to
drop everything and start a new federation called MEMEME, My Even More
Extraordinary Me Entity, but put the idea on hold as Bill Gates's conditions for
financing the project were that he (BG) have a permanent rating of 4000 on
rating lists. Kasparov's objection that Gates didn't even play chess was deemed
irrelevant according to an official Microsoft spokesman.
Albert Silver
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