Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:25:27 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 02:24:00, Alexander Kure wrote:
>On January 14, 2000 at 00:44:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>Once again, DB did _not_ lose to any computer. It never played a computer.
>>Deep Thought hardware was used in Hong Kong and lost to fritz in 1995. Not
>>Deep Blue. The Deep Blue 1 processors were not completed until very near to
>>the match date in 1996.
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>The reason why deep blue *never* lost to any other computer chess programm is
>the simple fact that it was never exposed to play an official game against any
>other computer chess programm. Maybe after some drawbacks such as the loss
>against Fritz in Hongkong 'they' did not want to take the risk of loosing
>another game?
Whatever the reason, the point is still valid: DB never lost to a computer.
Albert Silver
> I personally dislike the whole concept of deep blue which was only
>designed to play the world champion exclusively.
>
>Greetings
>Alex
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