Author: Roberto Waldteufel
Date: 01:43:51 07/22/98
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On July 22, 1998 at 02:35:34, Howard Exner wrote: >Has anyone kept a record of success stories made by micro computers >versus humans. Or is there a web site that has this summary. >Maybe milestones is too strong a word but some kind of site would be >nice that would showcase the accomplishments of the many programmers in this >area of computer chess. Like a hall of fame for chess programmers. It seems >Deep Blue has been showcased often and deservedly so but what about the rest >of the programmers? Events like Rebel-Anand,Hiarcs-Hergott,Crafty-Mississippi >State Championship, Genius-Kasparov (as Mark Young's post refreshed my >memory of this one). Also stuff like the first GM to lose to a micro. >Even the game/30 event on the net last year (the one where all the micros >did so well). Maybe some computer chess enthusiast could make this >part of their web site. Hi Howard, Maybe you could collect a list of such achievements by micros yourself. I believe that the first time a micro beat a (human) master was at the 1983 US Open Championship in Pasadena, California, where Super Constellation beat J Simon. My source is David Levy's "Computer Chess Compendium," page 417. Best wishes, Roberto
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