Re: computer chess

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon May 14 2001 - 06:16:59 MDT


måndagen den 14 maj 2001 13:52 Randy Smith wrote:

> One prescient Usenet comment remarked on how a chess tournament was
> recently won by a computer brought in by the Dutch team, and the poster
> asked, well, if they can win a tournament using a computer, what's next for
> the Dutch, winning the Olympics shotput competition by bringing in a
> cannon?

Reminds me of the Hyperchess challenge. Instead of having two players, each
side is allowed any configuration of teams, computers, Internet support etc.
The challenge is not really the game, but to find effective methods of
quickly collaborating.



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