Chess of the Future -or- Chess of the Past?
Presenting a probably incomplete history of computer assisted events, stemming from my post on Kasparov's Character, inspired by Authors@Google: Garry Kasparov (YouTube.com) and The Chess Master and the Computer by Garry Kasparov (NYbooks.com). See also 'Computer assistance at the highest level' By Frederic Friedel on The Sunday treat: Garry at Google.
Advanced Chess, Leon, Spain.
- 1998-06: Kasparov - Topalov
- 1999-06: Anand - Karpov
- 2000-06: Anand (KO 1/4)
- 2001-06: Anand (KO 1/4)
- 2002-06: Kramnik - Anand (see Kramnik on Advanced Chess and Fritz on Chessbase.com)
Complete Chess, Maastricht, Netherlands.
- 2004-02: Stellwagen - Baramidze (Daniƫl Stellwagen wins Complete Chess match)
- 2005-05: Stellwagen - van Wely (Stellwagen wins second Complete Chess match)
- 2006-02: Lanchava - Peng Zhaoqin (Complete Chess match Tea Lanchava vs Peng Zhaoqin, 'the ladies had to play two random chess games in their match!')
PAL/CSS Freestyle, Playchess.com.
- 2004-08: Freestyle Blitz Tournament (not PAL/CSS)
- 2005-06: Dark horse ZackS wins Freestyle Chess Tournament
- 2006-04: Zor-Champ wins Freestyle Tournament
- 2006-06: Rajlich Team won the third Freestyle tournament
- 2006-10: The Freestyle Champion is Xakru, dammit!
- 2007-03: Freestyle Chess – Teaching an Engine how to Fly, 'Flying Saucers is the new Freestyle Champion
- 2007-06: Rajlich wins Sixth PAL/CSS Freestyle Tournament
- 2007-09: Seventh PAL/CSS Freestyle Tournament with $16,000 up for grabs
- 2008-04: Eighth PAL/CSS Freestyle Tournament with $16,000 prize fund
For some reason, Chessbase.com never reported on the results of the last two events. I found them on Computerschach.de.
PAL/CSS, or at least the PAL side of it, appears to have morphed into Infinity Chess at Freestyle-chess.com; see 'Tournaments' for more about the PAL/CSS series. The outfit organized, or tried to organize, one or more events around end-2008 or begin-2009, but I haven't been able to locate full results: the Infinitychess.com domain is no longer active.
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