Dennis Monokroussos: Completed Events: Rybka wins the computer world championship, IM Lariño Nieto the Spanish championship

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Completed Events: Rybka wins the computer world championship, IM Lariño Nieto the Spanish championship
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1223168015.shtml


   It's not a surprise that Rybka won the [1]World Computer Chess
   Championship, as it has been on top of the computer rating lists and
   won most of the events it has entered since it burst onto the scene.
   It won with an undefeated 8/9, a point ahead of Hiarcs, whose only
   loss was to Rybka. That said, I'm not sure how impressed we should be
   by this, as Rybka was playing on a gargantuan 40 core machine. Leaving
   aside the jokey cell phone entry (scoring 0/9, thank you very much),
   most of the other programs played on 4 to 8 core machines, which
   hardly seems fair if the goal is to determine the strongest software.
   Heck, I'd expect the almost antediluvian Fritz 5.32 to defeat Rybka if
   the former played on 40 cores and the latter on a normal 4-core
   machine.
   Meanwhile, in humansville, 19-year-old IM David Lariño Nieto won the
   [2]Spanish Championship, winning all four of his knockout matches in
   the tiebreakers. An impressive result, considering that he was the
   fourth lowest rated player in the field of 16 (and #14 was one point
   lower, #15 three points lower).
   HT: [3]Chess Today

References

   1. file://localhost/var/www/powerblogs/chessmind/posts/1223168015.html
   2. http://www.feda.org/campeonatos_detall.php?id=42&campeonato=Campeonato%20de%20Espa%F1a%20Individual%20Absoluto
   3. http://www.chesstoday.net/