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4th Computer Chess Tournament

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-computer-speed-chess dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "The 4th computer chess tournament is being held online at Internet Chess Club over the next two weekends. Over 50 chess programs are involved, from commercial engines to amateur homebrews. Most will be operated by their authors. Details at CCT4 homepage. Last tournament (CCT3) there was live commentary by titled human chess masters. If you're a fan of chess or computer chess programming, login to ICC this weekend as a guest and watch the action."

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  1. Re:Hardware by sporty · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's ok. If you don't have the IBM super computer, you could always use, dare I say, a Beowulf Cluster? :)

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    ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only

  2. Re:Chessmaster? by hangdog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because this sticker wouldn't help sell copies of the game:

    "Chessmaster 9000. We finished 12th in the All-World Computer Chess Competition!"

    Probably too much risk for them. Maybe they would enter the program under a pseudo-name?

  3. Re:How long do the games last? by FigBug · · Score: 0, Funny

    I don't understand it. GNU chess on my 386 took a few seconds a move, GNUchess on my 1.4 Ghz Athalon takes a few seconds a move and it doesn't seem any harder. why aren't chess games getting any faster? I'm guessing there is no game logic other than rand() and a lot of sleep() statements.

  4. bad choice of words: by Xzzy · · Score: 3, Funny

    > watch the action.

    As interesting as chess is, "action" is a pretty piss-poor word to describe the game.
    Suspense, maybe. Action, not unless steven segal burst in and sprayed the place down with a machine gun.