Harvard Chess Cup

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The Harvard Chess Cup (short Harvard Cup , German  "Harvard-Pokal" ) was from 1989 to 1995 a mostly annual chess tournament "man against machine". The purpose was to measure progress in computer chess .

history

GM Patrick Wolff (left) in the game against Socrates served by Don Dailey at the 1992 Harvard Cup

It was brought into being by the two American scientists, FM Danny Edelman and Christopher Chabris (* 1966), from Harvard University . The first Harvard Cup , as a team tournament according to the Scheveningen system between chess grandmasters and chess computers , was held in Boston in October 1989 . Present was world chess champion Garry Kasparov . The grandmasters clearly won 13½ to 2½ against the machines.

The Harvard Cup was held every year from 1991 to 1995 and was held in Boston or New York City . People always won, but the computers caught up and also won individual games against grandmasters. The final scores in detail were 12 to 4 (1991 in Boston), 18 to 7 (1992 in New York), 27 to 9 (1993 in Boston), 29½ to 18½ (1994 in Boston) and 23½ to 12½ (1995 in New York) ).

Overview

The following table summarizes the final results for all Harvard Cups ( M stands for people and C for computers).

# year place M-C Points M Points C winner Points Best C Points space
1 1989 Boston 4-4 13½ 2½ Boris Gulko , Michael Rohde 4th Deep thought 1 5
2 1991 Boston 4-4 12 4th Maxim Dlugy 3½ Heuristic Alpha 2 5
3 1992 new York 5-5 18th 7th Michael Rohde 5 Socrates 3 3
4th 1993 Boston 6-6 27 9 Joel Benjamin 5 Socrates 3 6th
5 1994 Boston 6-8 29½ 18½ Joel Benjamin 6½ WChess 5 4th
6th 1995 new York 6-6 23½ 12½ Joel Benjamin 4½ Virtual chess 3½ 4th

literature

  • Frederic Friedel : What is Heuristic Alpha? - Debut of a new chess program at the Harvard Chess Cup 1991 in Computerschach & Spiele (CSS), No. 4, 1991, pp. 13-18
  • Boston Comparison - Computer Team Plays Grand Masters in CSS for Fourth Time , No. 1, 1994, pp. 21-25
  • Computer Chess International - Fifth Harvard Cup in Boston in CSS, No. 6, 1994, pp. 60-61
  • Computer Chess International - Harvard Cup in CSS, No. 1, 1996, p. 62

Web links

  • Harvard Cup in ChessProgramming Wiki accessed on November 30, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 026: Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. Marcel Dekker Inc 1992, p. 258, ISBN 978-0824722760
  2. ↑ Frederic Friedel: What is Heuristic Alpha? - Debut of a new chess program at the Harvard Chess Cup 1991 in CSS, No. 4, 1991, p. 13
  3. ↑ Harvard Cup in ChessProgramming Wiki accessed on November 30, 2017