Comment Re:Competition between chess systems? (Score 1) 260
I dunno if this answers your questions, but I try to give some useful links:
There's an (annual?) computer olympiad where computer games play against each other. 2002 Brutus won bronce in chess...
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/Olympiad2002/re sults.html
2003 it will be held in Graz, Austria
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2003/
For testing chess programs against each other: the only occasion I know about was made by heise (http://www.heise.de/ct/schachduell/ ) but with opponents of the same leage (Shredder and Fritz), I think it was mentioned on /. when it was held...
I don't think anyone bothered to let a good program run hundreds of games against a really poor one to see if there's a chance to win for the latter. But I think that it's like a chess novice playing against Kramnik or Kasparov: he'd need a hell lot of luck to win....
There's an (annual?) computer olympiad where computer games play against each other. 2002 Brutus won bronce in chess...
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/Olympiad2002/r
2003 it will be held in Graz, Austria
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2003/
For testing chess programs against each other: the only occasion I know about was made by heise (http://www.heise.de/ct/schachduell/ ) but with opponents of the same leage (Shredder and Fritz), I think it was mentioned on
I don't think anyone bothered to let a good program run hundreds of games against a really poor one to see if there's a chance to win for the latter. But I think that it's like a chess novice playing against Kramnik or Kasparov: he'd need a hell lot of luck to win....