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Subject: Re: Dead Wrong!

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 12:09:13 07/21/00

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On July 21, 2000 at 10:58:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 21, 2000 at 03:08:09, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>
>>The IBM pages are full of claims, here is one:
>>
>>   "Over the years, Chiptest evolved first into Deep Thought, then
>>    into Deep Blue, the most powerful chess-playing computer ever
>>    constructed."
>>
>>This was written in 1997 while another program was world-champion
>>in that period (1995-1999) nota bene beaten in a direct confrontation.
>>I call this kind of information misleading, softly speaking.
>
>
>It isn't misleading at all.  It was certainly factual.  Could Fritz search
>a minimum of 200M and a max of 1000M nodes per second?  If not, then IBM could,
>and clearly that was the most powerful machine around that played chess.  Power
>doesn't mean "best chess player" although they could easily make that claim as
>well and experts in the field wouldn't dispute it.
>
>

Experts in the field ? Wouldn't that be us, by chance ?

Or do you mean there's a group of distinguished and knowledgable experts
somewhere who *really* understand computer chess ? As opposed to us, perhaps.

Amir




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