Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:34:30 01/21/00
Here is the relevent quote from Hsu's book: After the Software Toolworks tournament... "The race for the Fredkin Intermediate Prize was officiall over. Deep Thought performad at 2776 for this (USCF scale) event, slightly behind the Hall of Fame result which was 2790 (hall of fame was another event it played in). By 1998 DT had played 42 rated games, including all the games played with serious bugs (US Open) was 2598. The best 25-game performance over the period was 2655 or 155 points higher than the requirements for the Fredkin Intermediate Prize" The opponents are listed in Monty's book... as are many of the game scores... Remember that DT's official USCF rating was 2551, which is lower than the performance rating for the same games, since the formula changes after the first 24 games are played. However multiple 2700+ performance ratings are remarkable. Particularly considering how much stronger DB/DB2 were than deep thought...
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