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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. Moron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe you don't feel it while playing Quake 3, but *time* is still a constraint for many many computational tasks. Chess programs in particular would *love* to have 10^36 years to make each move. They only have a few minutes, so they *are* time constrained.

  2. Gnuchess by damiam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why isn't gnuchess in this tournament? I'd love to see how it stacks up to all the other engines.

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  3. Re:Bobby Fisher by phantumstranger · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Kasparov is the No. 1 rated player in the world right now and has been for some time but alas, he's never played Fischer (at least in Tourney / Rated play). The thing that always gets me is that Fischer hasn't played rated tourneyt chess in over a decade and he's STILL rated third in the world by the governing body.

    I wouldn't say that Kasparov is a better player, but he is rated higher.

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  4. Learning chess progs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I was recently looking for a customizable chess program which learns. My idea was to have the computer play itself, over and over again, after each game changing the attributes of each of the players(E.G. attacker/defender, peice values etc.). It would result in a very smart program after a couple months of processor time dedicated to it(as a screensaver)..