Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:20:22 04/23/02
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On April 23, 2002 at 03:26:58, Uri Blass wrote: >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 No... the question included "tournament time control." By 1985 Cray Blitz had already proven that in blitz matches, GMs had no chance whatsoever. The question for computer chess discussions has _always_ mentioned tournament time controls, specifically 40/2hr or 45/2.5hr (as fide used to use a long time back).
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