Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 10:58:11 10/12/02
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On October 12, 2002 at 13:47:02, Ed Schröder wrote: >On October 12, 2002 at 13:18:26, pavel wrote: > >>Love this: >> >>"The Odyssey tournament is conducted by a notorious psychopath, perfectly >>discredited in the field of computer chess. Ask the SSDF about him and about his >>tourney." > >Got about the exact description back from Mark Crowther (TWIC) when I send him >the round reports for publication, demonizing at work. > > >>and this... >> >> >>"Sent by Vincent Diepeveen >>Hello Raymond, I understand there is a computer-machine event. My program DIEP >>is a parallel program, running on n processors, and a very strong program. >>Tactical at the moment probably strongest in the world with loads of chess >>knowledge, which is the basic difference between Fritz and my program. Hard work >>has been done at it. I plan to get world champion (in computer >>chess) real soon with it. This won’t be a major problem as this is a new >>generation of program: the same advantages as Fritz/deep blue had combined with >>more knowledge. The reason is easy. I am 2284 FIDE rated myself and work >>fulltime at DIEP nowadays. At AEGON 1997 my program was confused a lot with Deep >>Blue. Though names look very similar, it is not deep blue. it is better, but >>commercially seen that is very cool as the average watcher will think a player >>plays against deep blue :) I would like to know how to join your man-machine >>event! Friendly greetings, >>Vincent" >> >>Hilarious! > >Typical dutch modesty :) > >Ed Ed, It is quite common to find among strong chess players this kind of superiority complex...in this forum I have met recently several significant samples. Regards, Otello > >>;) >>pavs
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