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The Aegon Man-Machine Tournaments,
were initiated and organized by members of the CSVN, Cock de Gorter et al., and hosted by the Aegon insurance company in The Hague, the Netherlands. An equal number of human players and computer chess programs were playing six (1986 seven, 1989 five) rounds of a swiss system, with the constraint of man playing machines only. The Aegon tournament started almost with local chess players and anti-computer chess specialists. Later more and more International Masters and Grandmasters were invited, with increasing costs for the sponsor. Apparently due to the 1997 Kasparov versus Deep Blue match, the 1997 Tournament was the last edition ^[1] .

Editions

Edition	Players	Rounds	Man vs. Mach.		Winner	P	Best Program	P	Rank
Aegon 1986	2*11	7	41½	35½	Fred van der Vliet	6	Rebel	4½	5
Aegon 1987	2*13	6	39½	38½	Martin Voorn	6	Mephisto Dallas 16 bit	4½	3
Aegon 1988	2*16	6	53	43	Lex Jongsma	6	Mephisto Mega 4	4	7
Aegon 1989	2*16	5	57½	23	Ad van den Berg	5	Fidelity Mach IV+	3½	8
Aegon 1990	2*14	6	47	37	HiTech	5	HiTech	5	1
Aegon 1991	2*20	6			John van der Wiel	6	MChess	4	8
Aegon 1992	2*24	6	84	60	David Bronstein	6	Mephisto 68030	4	8
Aegon 1993	2*32	6			David Bronstein	5½	The King	5	3
Aegon 1994	2*38	6	114	114	Larry Christiansen	5½	Gideon	4½	5
Aegon 1995	2*48	6	132	155	John van der Wiel	5½	Hiarcs	5	2
Aegon 1996	2*50	6	137½	162½	Yasser Seirawan	6	Quest	4½	5
Aegon 1997	2*50	6	148½	151½	Yona Kosashvili	6	Kallisto	4½	4

Photos

Aegon Headquarters in The Hague [2]
Tournament hall [3]

Tournament Organizers

• Cock de Gorter
• Dap Hartmann

External Links

• AEGON Man-Machine Tournaments, old CSVN site
• Important games hosted by Ed Schröder
• The Aegon Man-Machine Tournaments (1986–1997), Human-computer chess matches from Wikipedia

References

1. ^ AEGON tournament disappears, do we let this happen? by Ed Schröder, CCC, November 01, 1997
2. ^ This photo shows the headquarters of Aegon in The Hague, Netherlands, Image by Teun Spaans (assumed), September 20 , 2005, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
3. ^ Aegon 1996-97 by Thorsten Czub

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