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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