Paderborn 2007/8 - HIARCS WINS!

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Paderborn 2007/8 - HIARCS WINS!

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Hi All,

Details of this years tournament can be found here on the official website http://wwwcs.upb.de/~IPCCC/ and of course in this thread.

Best Wishes,

Harvey
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shreddar leading all comp rating lists, is the best prog.

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What a crock that is. How can they claim "leading all important computer chess rating lists", "Best pc chess program"/ What a discusting croc.
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shreddar leading all comp rating lists, is the best prog.

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Because the descriptions haven't been updated since, well, ever. I think Bob Hyatt said 1999.
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Will Hiarcs be attending ?
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Ray wrote:Will Hiarcs be attending ?
It is possible Hiarcs will be there but 27-30th December are not good dates for travelling. I wont be there and Mark certainly will not but we may have an operator.
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Hello All,

I can now confirm that for the 1st time Hiarcs will be at paederborn.

http://wwwcs.upb.de/~IPCCC/

Best Wishes,

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its not the first time.
hiarcs was there before. on a championship.
1995 ?

its pader.

pader born.

the pader is a little river. in paderborn there is the SOURCE of this river.
actually the pader is in the center of the town. very nice to walk...
there are arround 200 sources of the pader in the center of the town !


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the pader is germanys smallest river (3km).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pader

paderborn is a very nice and idyllic town.

follow this link if you want to see some of paderborns nice pictures:
http://www.soemer-digital.de/paderborn.htm
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mclane wrote:its not the first time.
hiarcs was there before. on a championship.
1995 ?
I stand corrected - Thanks Thorsten!
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Thanks for the good info, Thorsten. That was informative and I feel a small part of my ignorance has been dispelled.
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Post by Harvey Williamson »

The Paderborn website is now updated http://wwwcs.upb.de/~IPCCC/ click on participants for more details.

Thanks to Sebastian Boehme for volunteering to travel to Paderborn to operate Hiarcs.

Best Wishes,

Harvey

ps. The Information posted on the Paderborn websits about Hiarcs:
HIARCS is one of the few original PC chess programs still competing in top level chess competition. It has been in development over the last twenty years and since 1991 has always been among the top chess programs in the world. In this time it has led world rating lists and won World Championship titles. It was the first PC chess program to defeat a FIDE International Master in a match and has been a favourite of a number of World Chess Champions. So much so that Garry Kasparov said towards the end of his match with Deep Blue2 that "HIARCS is much better positionally than Deep Blue".

HIARCS is available on a number of platforms including PC, Macintosh and Palm handheld devices. The handheld Palm version has won multiple matches against GMs and even won a GM/IM tournament in the Philippines.

HIARCS' playing style is now very aggressive with a distinctive liking for attacking the opponent's king. This often leads to dynamic exciting games which are often played on a knife-edge.

HIARCS is now capable of taking advantage of multi-processors/cores to improve its chess performance making it a very dangerous opponent.
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Post by Sebastian Boehme »

Hi Harvey and all other chess friends,

for me it is a big honour to be able to represent Team HIARCS at Paderborn *slime slime* :lol:

I will give of course give continuous updates from HIARCS at Paderborn and post all games here as PGNs.

Let's hope for the best :twisted:

Kind regards,
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Sebastian Boehme wrote:Hi Harvey and all other chess friends,

for me it is a big honour to be able to represent Team HIARCS at Paderborn *slime slime* :lol:

I will give of course give continuous updates from HIARCS at Paderborn and post all games here as PGNs.

Let's hope for the best :twisted:

Kind regards,
Sebastian
Hi Sebi,

Christian Goralski hopes to join you there for some of the time and has volunteered to help Broadcast the Hiarcs games live on Playchess.

Best Wishes,

Harvey
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Post by Harvey Williamson »

This tournament is almost upon us 27th - 30th of December. All the games will be in this thread http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=5896#5896

All other comments and News will be in this one.

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Post by Sebastian Boehme »

Hi everybody,

I will be operating HIARCS at Paderborn and will try to broadcast the games on the playchess server if possible, but I do not want to promise too much as I do not know yet how the Internet there is going to be.

The field of participants promises some exciting games: Rybka, Shredder, Diep, GridChess, Spike and of course our beloved Hiarcs. (A list with all participants can be found here: http://wwwcs.uni-paderborn.de/~IPCCC/ --- and Click on Participants)

I will post all the games in the tournament's thread as soon as these games are finished. Looking forward to read some of your comments on these games in this thread.

For now: Merry Christmas to all of you and your Families and be blessed.

Kind Regards,
Sebastian
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make sure Ingo Althöfer does not unplug your electricity to help shredder :-) if he walks by.

he once unplugged a bunch of computers at the aegon tournament...

ooops
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