***** SIXTH HARVARD CUP HUMAN VERSUS COMPUTER CHESS CHALLENGE ***** Wednesday-Thursday, 27-28 December 1995, 5pm EST start each day. Manhattan Conference Center Fiterman Hall, 30 West Broadway (14th floor), New York, NY The Internet Chess Club (ICC) will broadcast a game from each of the 9 rounds live for ICC emmbers to watch and comment! The Sixth Harvard Cup will feature six of America's top grandmasters against six of the leading microcomputer-based chess software packages in a team match format. Each human will play each computer once, at a time control of game in 25 minutes. There will be 36 games in all (five rounds of four games on the first day, four rounds of four games on the second day), beginning at 5:00 PM each day. Demonstration boards and expert commentary will be provided, software will be exhibited, and T-shirts and chess books and equipment will be on sale. Admission for spectators is FREE and includes a copy of the official program book. The following teams will participate: Humans: Joel Benjamin (two-time defending Harvard Cup Champion) Boris Gulko (1994 U.S. Champion and world championship candidate) Ilya Gurevich (former World Junior Champion) Gregory Kaidanov (in his first Harvard Cup) Michael Rohde (in his sixth Harvard Cup) Patrick Wolff (1992 and 1995 U.S. Champion) Computers: Chessmaster 5000 (Mindscape) Junior (Plastronics Interactive Multimedia) M-Chess Pro (Marty Hirsch; current world microcomputer champion) Socrates 95 (Kaufman and Dailey; three-time Harvard Cup Champion) Virtual Chess (I-Motion Interactive) WChess (David Kittinger; defending Harvard Cup Champion) All programs will run on the new 150 MHz Intel Pentium Pro processor (in its international computer chess debut). Last year the computer team scored 39% on 90 MHz Pentium processors -- will they pass 50% for the first time this year? The Harvard Cup Youth Challenge for students ages 5-18 will run each day from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Participants may register between 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM each day. Activities will include a series of challenge games against Chessmaster 5000 for prizes, chess lessons from top teachers, and demonstrations and workshops on how computers play chess. Further information is available by emailing to: harvardcup@h3.org