Author: Will Singleton
Date: 10:25:54 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 08:22:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 29, 1999 at 04:58:49, Peter Fendrich wrote: > >>On January 29, 1999 at 00:41:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On January 28, 1999 at 21:05:30, Peter Fendrich wrote: >>> >>>>Chess 4.0 won in Stockholm 1974 and not 1976 as I (and you) wrote. >>>>//Peter >>> >>>I don't think they won in 1974 either. Kaissa did. They lost to Chaos that >>>year in the famous Nxe6 sacrifice (chess 3.x was black). They won in 1977 in >>>Toronto as I was there. Belle won in 1980... >>> >>>the first chess 4.0 was 1976... >> >>Confusion! >>1) It was Chess 4.0 so they played the program in 1974 >>2) They didn't won but took second place >>3) My main point wasn't that but the little trick they >> implemented 1974. I found it similar to the razoring trick. >>4) The clock was 3 in the morning and I had "forgotten" to go to bed. >> The same happened the night before. Shouldn't do that in my age! >> >>//Peter > > >there is confusion. I am looking at the chess skill in man and >machine book, and at my 1974 ACM computer chess booklet and there is >disagreement. > >Chess 4.x did play in Stockholm, but it definitely lost to Chaos and >didn't get to play the winner, Kaissa. They played an exhibition game >and beat Kaissa, but the Russian program was the world champion. Chess >4.x did win in Toronto in 1977. > >The book (Chess Skill) says chess 4.6 played in 1974. That is wrong, >as the tournament bulletin clearly says chess 4.0. Chess 4.6 was not >seen in an acm tournament bulletin until Houston 1976. > >Not sure how the numbers got scrambled so badly... You missed a couple of things, Bob. Chess Skill has the correct info, saying Chess 4.0 played in the 1974 ACM. Chess 4.0 also didn't beat Kaissa in the exhibition, it was a draw (though it had a win it missed). Look in chapter 1, not the appendix (which has the 4.5 misprint). Will
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