As the new year rolls in, the first order of business is to announce when the next OTB (over the board) meeting of the Club is.
Monday January 10th from 4pm until the Buffalo Wild Wings in Brighton Michigan throws us out. Usually around 9 or 10 pm.
We will have casual chess that night and discuss which Monday meeting will begin our 2022 Fischer Random 960 Club Tournament. Entry fee will of course be free to all who wish to enter.
It is also with great pride that your humble scribe announces that the LCCC Chess Club on Chess dot com, has moved into the TOP 1% of all the Daily Play clubs on the #1 chess site in the world! A Daily Play club is a club that plays matches against any and all of the other clubs on the site. Which, as this is typed, the number of clubs is 111824. We are #1168 and will be moving up! Yes, all you calculator nerds would put us at 98.9555%, but never fear. When we stand at 99.1% shortly, we will still only claim the Top 1% title.
I wish to thank all the players who play for us on-line, and especially those carrying the heavy lifting. You know who you are.
If you wish to join this elite group of on-line chess players at LCCC on Chess dot com, we really only have two rules of entry and being a Member-in-good-standing:
1. Sign up to play in at least a 1/4 of our matches. Sometimes you may get bounced because the other team did not have enough players to cover your rating level. Don't worry. You still get credit for signing up to play!
2. Don't forfeit your games.
Now since the discussion was about chess on computers, let's review a brief history timeline of computers playing chess.
1770 - A chess playing machine toured Europe, only to finally be discovered that it was controlled by a 'little person' hidden in the bottom working the controls.
1956 - A machine called Maniac defeated an unrated player.
1967 - Mac Hack VI defeats a 1510 player. No, it was not me. I was unrated at the time and would have lost to both of them anyway.
1968 - The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. predicts the future correctly. Computer HAL defeats Frank, the human astronaut.
1978 - Chess program Chess 4.6 achieves and Expert rating of 2040.
1981 - Program Cray Blitz achieves a Master rating of 2258
1989 - Program Deep Thought achieves a 2400 rating and loses to World Champion Gary Kasparov in a two-game match.
1997 - Program Deep Blue does a checkmate heard around the world as it defeats the World Champion Gary Kasparov.
2004 - Grandmasters Topolov, Ponomariov and Karjakin lose to the chess programs; Hydra, Deep Junior and Fritz (see pic - our own Igor 3000).
2016 - Program Komodo wins the Computer Chess Championship and it's rating is over 3400 (World Champion Magnus Carlsen stands at 2890)
2019 - Program Lc0 wins the 2019 Computer Chess Championship beating the two-time champion Stockfish and establishes it's rating over 3900.
Both Lc0 and Stockfish have not responded to your humble scribe's challenges to chess matches (to be played underwater in snorkel gear). They must be scared of defeat.
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