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Subject: Re: Chess error in Guiness Book of Records

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:19:42 07/03/02

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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


I believe Deep Thought was the first program to beat a grandmaster in a
tournament game, in 1988...




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