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Subject: Re: Humour from Herald Tribune about Kramnik - Computer

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 06:26:28 04/23/01

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On April 23, 2001 at 08:56:03, Jouni Uski wrote:

>"To decide which computer will take on Mr. Kramnik, a
>tournament between the world's two strongest chess computers,
>named "Fritz" and "Junior," will begin Saturday in Cadaques,
>Spain. Fritz was developed by German programmers and Junior
>by Israeli programmers; both are distributed by ChessBase of
>Hamburg. IBM declined to participate.
>The latest computers can analyze 500 million positions a second.
>The match has been arranged by Brain Games and Raymond
>Keene, an English grandmaster. "
>
>Hmm...they have made real speedup lately!

What's a couple orders of magnitude here or there (between friends).

Not bad, since it's 2.5 times the speed of Deep Blue.  Maybe I should buy one.
;-)



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