Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:05:40 05/25/01
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On May 25, 2001 at 18:40:05, Graham Laight wrote: >On May 25, 2001 at 09:41:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 25, 2001 at 04:22:37, Graham Laight wrote: >> >>>America probably took the lead in the sixties because they were rich enough to >>>allow their students/professors to do chess programs on expensive machines in >>>universities. >> >> >>They "held" this lead thru the 70's, and 80's, and even into the 90's. And >>if you only consider the "strongest" then that claim to fame _still_ resides >>here at IBM. > >Far be it for me to come between your country and its trophies - but... just one >little question... if one claims to be the strongest, ought one not to play more >than one opponent? :) > >-g > Considering that they lost one game to a microcomputer from 1987 until the last ACM event in 1995, I think they _did_ play more than one opponent. :) >>IE starting at the first ACM event, add up the number of tournaments won >>by Chess X, Belle, Cray Blitz, HiTech and Deep Thought. There are only a >>couple of events out of 25 that were not won by that group. If you add >>in *Socrates, it drops to maybe 2 events. Actually there were over 30 >>events as every 3rd year there is a WCCC and ACM event. >> >>If you are talking about micros-only, I would say "ho hum..." There are also >>some fast 4-cylinder autos... but most seem to like NASCAR or Formula-1. :) >> >> >> >>> >>>Now that computers are cheap and common, the Dutch are ruling the world - and by >>>a country mile! >>> >>>The Dutch people absolutely love mind games - chess programming suits their >>>national character down to the ground. >>> >>>-g >>> >>>On May 25, 2001 at 00:34:09, william penn wrote: >>> >>>>Does america have the lead, i know that belle was the first master level chess >>>>computer and americans are the pioneers of computer chess.
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