Author: martin fierz
Date: 05:35:25 02/08/01
Go up one level in this thread
On February 08, 2001 at 06:25:52, Uri Blass wrote: >If number 1 died then number 2 automatically becomes number 1 so chinook played >against number 1. > >Uri you're right in principle, but not for checkers :-) chinook was designed to beat tinsley, not number 2 who became number 1. tinsley was world champion for about 50 years! - except when he stopped playing for some years, only to come back and beat everybody again. he was so much better than all other humans and had this unbelievable record that schaeffer wanted to beat tinsley, not the world champion after him. tinsley was lightyears ahead of everybody else. remember when bobby fisher disposed of his opponents with 6-0? even though they were also very strong grandmasters, would you be happy if your machine went on to beat them? actually tinsley was no longer 'world champion' when he played against chinook, he forfeited his title to play against chinook, as the official federation didnt want him to play chinook for the world championship, he was merely the clear number one in the world. read schaeffer's book - you will see what i mean in the chapter where schaeffer describes his emotions after tinsely's death. cheers martin
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.