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Subject: Re: Chess error in Guiness Book of Records

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:39:19 07/03/02

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On July 03, 2002 at 12:37:12, Albert Silver wrote:

>On July 03, 2002 at 12:32:13, Peter Hegger wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>I have the 1998 edition so maybe it has been corrected by now.
>>Here is a quote from the book.
>>
>>'IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer was the first computer to beat a human chess
>>grandmaster in a regulation game when it played Garry Kasparov in Philadelphia,
>>USA in 1995...'
>>
>>Bent Larsen, among others, lost to computers in regulation time earlier than
>>1995.
>>Regards,
>>Peter
>
>Heck, Mchess beat GM Christiansen in a regulation game prior to 1995 on a 486 if
>I'm not mistaken.

From:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/comphis.htm

"In 1977 Michael Stean became the first grandmaster to lose to a computer; it
was a blitz game."

"In 1988 Grandmaster Bent Larsen became the first GM to lose to a computer in a
major tournament - the American Open."







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