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World Computer Chess Championships Underway

Posted by timothy on from the hushed-crowd dept.

azaris writes "While the FIDE World Championships for human players in Tripoli, Libya are down to the last two contestants, the computers are playing their own 12th World Computer Chess Championship in Ramat-Gan, Israel. How will the open source chess engine Crafty do against the proprietary closed engines? Will the computers play more interesting chess than their human counterparts?"

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  1. Re:USA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "No native players"? You were hoping for Native American players?

    In case you haven't heard, the USA is (almost entirely) a nation of IMMIGRANTS.

    Glad the Russian-American & Japanese-American players have found a better life here.

  2. Some results by ninja0 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Some results are at Chessbase.

    Crafty managed to draw Shredder, one of the big-name computer programs, in the first round. That makes it tied with a bunch of other programs in the middle of the pack.

    Personally, I'm always excited to hear about the progress that has been made by chess engines. Nowadays, the top programs can compete with all of the top humans, without requiring a supercomputer.

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