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Subject: Re: 1986 WCCC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:56:32 03/22/00

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On March 22, 2000 at 13:14:21, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>	In 1986, four programs tied for first place in the world computer-chess
>championship (Cray Blitz, Sun Phoenix, Hitech and Bebe).
>	Cray Blitz was awarded the championship on tiebreaks. Was there any play-off
>game?
>José.

No.  Back then, hardly any playoff events were done...  the main reason was
that it was very difficult to schedule time on a 60 million dollar computer
for a playoff round that might not happen.

In this event it was not really important since CB had beaten BeBe and HiTech
in the tournament...




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