Hans.Berliner@A.CS.CMU.EDU (02/18/86)
From: Hans Berliner@A.CS.CMU.EDU
[Forwarded from the CMU bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
The Eastern Team championship is essentially over. Hitech won and
drew today, producing a final score of 5.5 - .5. It played
remarkably well. Outside of falling into an opening trap due to a
deficiency in its book, and being outplayed a little in game four but
recovering when the opponent made an error, its play is above
criticism. It played mainly against expert level players, a class
that is almost extinct in Pittsburgh, and beat every one of them. It
drew its final game with a strong master rated nearly equal (2291) to
Hitech. It had black in 4 games, and white in two; a noticable
disadvantage. Mike Valvo who directs the ACM tournaments played on
board one for the team and finished with a score of 4.5 to 1.5.
Hitech played on board two, and Belle played on board three. Belle
apparently has had a hardware overhaul, and played much better than
it had recently. However, on a comparison basis, Belle scored 5- 1,
losing in the last round, and it had 4 whites and two blacks and
played against slightly weaker opponents than Hitech. The fourth
board human on the team was a catastrophe, scoring less than 50%.
The crucial match was in the fifth round and ended in a draw with
both computers winning and both humans losing, thus making the match
a draw and ruining our chances of winning the title (the team had won
all its previous matches). In the final round, there are still some
unfinished games, but the team should do no worse than draw, giving a
team record of 5 -1 (two drawn matches). Overall, it is safe to say
that on our team the species @u[robot sapiens] far outperformed the
species @u[homo sapiens].