Advanced Chess

Advanced Chess in Leon

Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand will play an Advanced Chess
Match in Leon, Spain June 20th to June 24th 2002. They will be
playing Advanced Chess with both players consulting with their
databases and chess programs (Chessbase is one of the sponsors of
the tournament). Each player has 1 hour for the whole game.
Schedule: Drawing of lots June 20th at the Conde Luna Hotel of León.
The event will be played in 3 sessions: 2 games on Friday 21st, 2
games on Saturday 22nd and the last 2 games on Sunday 23rd . If
the tournament finishes 3 to 3, there will be a tiebreak blitz match to
decide the winner.

Probable web page: http://www.advancedchessleon.com

Who else finds this to be alot of crap?

Dave

I do. Sounds more like a promotion campaign for databases and chess programs. No single useful chess related conclusion can be drawn
from the result. I guess a lot of money is involved.... Sin.

Exactly!

Congrats on getting back into the top 20!

Dave

thanks. But not yet a stable position. Only one point difference.
Ongoing games will decide. Sin.

What exactly, Dave, does consist 'Advanced Chess' of? I'm not exactly
with you (I'm a techno-retarde person)... Sorry. Jan

I suppose the term refers to the mixture of human intelligence (chess
related) and artificial intelligence (programs & databases). Whatever,
it's a stupid term and it suggests more than it really means...

Pretty good Gil.

The GM's sit down and have a computer with both a playing
program...such as fritz...and some database pograms..like
Chessbase..and both use them along with their knowledge to beat the
other.

I think the money comes from the owners of the programs they use.

Once again...a whole load of crap.

Dave

I vaguely recall i've read somewhere, sometime that Kasparov is sort
of willing to promote Advanced Chess. If I remember correctly the aim
was to enhance the level of chess-quality. Search me... Jan