Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:57:19 04/21/00
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On April 21, 2000 at 12:51:36, Mike S. wrote: >On April 20, 2000 at 22:10:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>(...) >>Cray Blitz won a state championship in 1984 and caused an uproar that lasted >>2 years. It was often mentioned in the USCF policy discussions about what to >>do about computers. USCF decided that no action was better than a possibly >>wrong action, which led to the death of computers in US events... > >Yes, thanks Bob for reminding me at this, I have known it (and even written >about it), but I did not think of an US state now in this present context. >Quoting other "secondary" sources, I wrote that it happened 1981 (?), in the >Mississippi championship. If you want to take a look (it's in german): > >http://www.computerschach.de/einleit/kapitel1.htm#bewohner > >(from a computer chess history article, published by the CSS magazine) > >Of course I didn't know any details, i.e. that it caused an uproar... it seems >the delay for repeating something in Europe, what happened in the US before, is >longer as usual in this case. But I don't really think that Fritz can win this >title... Anyway, great pleasure to correspond with you! > >Regards, >M.Scheidl Whether fritz wins or not, the 'uproar' is already going, and it is a problem. If fritz does well, the volume will only increase. If it wins, look for a firestorm. None of the three options is 'good' IMHO...
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