 WELCOME TO THE INTERNET CHESS CLUB
The Internet Chess Club (ICC) is the longest running, most popular,
and best place to play chess on the Internet. Nowhere else can you find as many
chess enthusiasts ready for a quick round of blitz, a short chat, an impromptu
tournament, or simply enjoying the wealth of Chess.FM shows and live event coverage.
It is not uncommon to find more than 3,000 chess players hanging out on ICC
where more than 100,000 games are played each day.
ICC Dasher is a Windows program for playing chess. Membership
enables you to play chess online within the ICC community, challenging your
skills at ICC online tournaments. You can download
Dasher for free and use it to play offline or online and to register for
a free trial ICC account.
 Man
& Machine vs. Machine
 When
researchers in artificial intelligence began to look at chess a half-century
ago, they asked: "Can we teach a computer to play well?" Today the
question is more like: "What can the machines teach us?"
Computers understand certain positions better than we do.
They've taught us that many "hopeless" positions can be saved. They've
shown that pawn-grabbing is not the sin it was once thought to be. And they've
also undermined our faith in planning.
We've seen many computer vs human matches and mismatches
since that fateful day 11 years ago in New York, when Garry Kasparov
lost to IBM's Deep Blue. Now get ready for a match with a difference: ICC's
Deep Junior 11 (running on a home-desktop Dell Vostro 200, with Intel core duo
E8200 processor, 2.66GHz, 3GB RAM) gets set to face a formidable challenge as
it takes on the combined talents of GM Miguel Illescas and Junior 10
(running on a Toshiba laptop A-100, with 2GHz T7200 processor, 1GB RAM) on June
5th at CosmoCaixa
in Barcelona, Spain.
Miguel Illescas is a seven-time Spanish champion
and second to former world champion Vladimir Kramnik. And his relationship
with computers is a crucial one - he was hired as a consultant by IBM for Deep
Blue, the machine that beat Kasparov in 1997.
Deep Junior 11 is a new (and soon-to-be-released by ICC)
multiprocessor version of the five-time world computer chess champion program,
created by Israelis Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky, that also drew
a six-game match in 2003 in New York against Kasparov.
The match-up will pose some interesting questions: Apart
from the brute calculating force, how much more does this latest version of
Deep Junior 11 really understand the game? And more importantly, at what point
will the the human intervention of one of the world's top grandmasters influence
this intriguing duel?
ICC will be following this match-up live with Chess.FM in
Spanish and English from the playing venue. For further information go to http://www.chessclub.com/finger/Junior08
Other links: http://www.edami.com/home03.aspx?ID=151
and http://www.edami.com/download/CosmoCaixa_05-06-08_cas.pdf
ICC now has the exclusive rights to new versions of Junior
(both the multiprocessor Deep Junior 11, and single processor Junior 11), and
soon after the match it will be commercially available here from the ICC.
Regular ICC Events
 ICC
Newsletter XXII-2008
May 30
In this issue:
Man & Machine vs. Machine, Oscar Time Again, Are You A Member of the
USCF?, Chess.FM videos, Tomato Central, and the ICC Store. |
All events are free to ICC members unless noted. All times are Eastern Standard Time. Add 5 hours for GMT. Add 6 hours for CET.
Friday, June 06
|  | 00:45 |  Tournament Sleepless - 3 tournaments, 5 rounds of 3 0 |  |
| | 07:00 | Tournament Early Morning - 7 rounds of 3 1 | |
| | 10:00 | Tournament ICC Store - 8 rounds of 1 0 | |
| | 11:30 | Tournament Chess21 Series - 5 rounds of 5 0 | |
| | 13:00 | Tournament Chess21 Series - 5 rounds of 5 0 | |
 | 13:00 | Special SimulMaster! with a FIDE titled player | |
| | 14:15 | Tournament Daily Standard - 4 rounds of 30 0 | |
 | 15:00 | Webcast GM Benjamin "Game of the Week" GOTW | |
| | 17:00 | Tournament Zhouse League - 6 rds 1 0, 2x6 rds 3 0 | |
| | 20:00 | Tournament Unrated blitz - 7 rounds of 5 0 | |
| | 23:00 | Tournament Nightly U1500 - 5 rounds of 2 6 | |
| | 23:00 | Tournament Nightly O1500 - 7 rounds of 5 0 | |
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