berliner@k.cs.cmu.edu (Hans Berliner) (12/31/85)
This year the Fredkin event was an invitational tournament which consisting of 8 human Pittsburgh Masters (10 exist, and two declined to play) and Hitech, the North American Computer Chess Champion. The round- robin tourney was held in Pittsburgh over a series of week-ends. The final cross table is below. It is of interest in evaluating this result to note that all humans were well prepared for the computer, knowing when they would play it and having seen quite a few of its games. This has in past Fredkin events led to computers performing about 200 points below their present rating. Further, Martinak, who in two previous Fredkin events scored 4.5 to 0.5 against the likes of Cray Blitz, Belle, Nuchess and Duchess lost to Hitech. Hitech's performance rating from this event was 2443, and its actual rating should go to 2309 after this event is recorded. FREDKIN MASTERS INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT 1985 Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Score Place ------- ------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ----- ----- Rao 2400 X 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 I Szmetan 2404 0 X 1/2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6.5 II Hitech 2255 0 1/2 X 1/2 1/2 1 1 1 1 5.5 III Leverett 2366 0 0 1/2 X 1 1 1 1 1/2 5 IV Magar 2268 0 0 1/2 0 X 1 0 1/2 1 3 V-VI Nowe 2262 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 1 1 3 V-VI Martinak 2217 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 1/2 1 2.5 VII Eidemiller 2221 0 0 0 0 1/2 0 1/2 X 1/2 1.5 VIII Nedved 2235 0 0 0 1/2 0 0 0 1/2 X 1.0 IX
tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick) (01/01/86)
In article <714@k.cs.cmu.edu> berliner@k.cs.cmu.edu (Hans Berliner) writes: >This year the Fredkin event was an invitational tournament which >consisting of 8 human Pittsburgh Masters (10 exist, and two declined to >play) and Hitech, the North American Computer Chess Champion. [ ... ] Would it be possible to post the games played by Hitech in this event? I haven't been too impressed by computer chess play in the past, but Hitech seems to have made some kind of breakthrough. If anyone can make computers play good chess these days, I'm sure former World Correspondence Champion Hans Berliner can. I would also be curious to see a correspondence tournament including Hitech and some strong Postal Masters. Finally, I have seen some terrible endgame play by computers. Has there been a breakthrough in that area? -Tom