Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:21:24 07/03/02
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On July 03, 2002 at 13:39:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >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." Correct. This was at the 1977 WCCC in Toronto, Canada. The program was (obviously) chess 4.7 on a CDC cyber 176 computer, searching 2300 nodes per second. > >"In 1988 Grandmaster Bent Larsen became the first GM to lose to a computer in a >major tournament - the American Open." Correct again. This was vs Deep Thought in a 40 moves in 2 hours traditional game...
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