Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 13:27:12 11/30/99
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On November 30, 1999 at 12:25:37, Stephen Ham wrote: >PRESS RELEASE OF NOVEMBER 30, 1999. > >A correspondence chess challenge match will begin on December 1, 1999 matching >USCF Senior Master Steve Ham (ICCF rated 2508) of Minneapolis, Minnesota against >two top chess engines, Nimzo 7.32 and the just-released Fritz 6. This match >will consist of 2-game matches; each chess engine gets one white >and one black vs. their human opponent. ChessBase USA company will >provide the chess engines and computer (Compaq Presario 5461 Pentium III 500 >MHz. with 64MB RAM of which 48MB RAM is dedicated to the chess engine) for the >match. Don Maddox (President of ChessBase USA) will personally supervise the >operation of the computer. These games will be played as correspondence chess >games, offering us an opportunity to see how well the best chess >engines coupled with one of the fastest computers can perform under these >conditions. I would like to ask how the computer's time allocation is determined, and if any human intervention is allowed. bruce
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