Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:26:58 04/23/02
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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. No the answer is 1994 time control was not mentioned in the question and Genius3 beated kasparov 1.5-.5 in 25 minutes/game match in 1994. Uri
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