Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 07:07:56 08/06/00
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On August 06, 2000 at 08:46:49, Frederic Friedel wrote: >On August 06, 2000 at 02:49:50, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>From the front page of www.chessbase.com: >> >>> DORTMUND 2000 - DAY 9: SUPER-GM PERFORMANCE BY JUNIOR >>> On the final day in Dortmund Anand outplayed Hübner to catch up with >>> Kramnik and share first place with him. In the meantime Junior defeated >>> Leko to end up with an overall score of 50% and a super-GM performance >>> of 2703. This is the greatest achievement of any computer program in >>> history. >> >>With all due respect to Amir and Shay, this claim is simply over the top. For >>instance, I would consider the software that piloted Voyager 2 to close views of >>several planets over the last decade to be a much greater achievement. >>Presumably what was meant was that Junior's result was the greatest achievement >>of any computer chess program in history, which would be (merely ;-) >>controversial. >> > >The intended meaning was "This is the greatest achievement of any computer >program in history _in chess_." Right, that's what I thought. Incidentally, I do think that 50% at Dortmund this year is a fantastic result. Dave
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