Author: Mark Young
Date: 23:04:32 04/22/02
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On April 23, 2002 at 00:14:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 22, 2002 at 12:12:48, Dana Turnmire wrote: > >>I have a book entitled "How Computers Play Chess" by David Levy and Monty >>Newborn (1991). In the first chapter (page 7) there is a list of grandmasters >>and programmers who predict the year a chess computer will defeat the human >>world chess champion in a match. I don't consider the short match between >>Kasparov and the IBM super computer to be an "official" match under normal world >>championship conditions. So as far as I am concerned the question is still >>open. > >Actually the question was answered in 1997. > >:) > >6 games _is_ a match. And since the FIDE WC has dispensed with the old >long match format, the 1997 match was actually better than the last few >FIDE WC matches. Yes, you are correct. This quesition has already been answered. 1997!!! like it or not. > > > > > >> >>Here is the list of estimates of the year in which a computer will defeat the >>world human chess champion. >> >>Year >> >>1992 Gyula Horvath; Monty Newborn. >> >>1993 John McCarthy. >> >>1994 I.M. Hans Berliner; Marty Hirsch; Feng-hsiung Hsu. >> >>1995 Murray Campbell; Larry Kaufmann; David Kittinger; I.M. Danny Kopec, Donald >>Michie; David Slate; I.M. Mike Valvo. >> >>1997 John Stanback. >> >>1998 Kevin O'Connell. >> >>1999 Ed Felton; Tom Pronk; Sidney Samole; Claude Shannon; Jos Uiterwijk. >> >>2000 Robert Hyatt; G.M. Kevin Spraggett; Victor Vikhrev; Jaap van den Herik. >> >>2001 Jurg Nievergelt; Mark Taylor. >> >>2002 I.M. Julio Kaplan. >> >>2005 Richard Lang; Pierre Nolot; Ard van Bergen. >> >>2008 Harry Nelson. >> >>2010 Don Daily; Ossi Weiner. >> >>2011 Lars Hjorth. >> >>2013 Tony Scherzer. >> >>2014 I.M. David Levy. >> >>2020 Tony Marsland. >> >>2025 Dap Hartmann. >> >>2030 Franz Morsch. >> >>2040 Jonathan Schaeffer. >> >>2050 Harm Bakker. >> >>2056 Helmut Horacek. >> >>NEVER David Cahlander.
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