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Subject: Re: Chess error in Guiness Book of Records

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 18:53:00 07/03/02

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On July 03, 2002 at 16:28:53, David Dory 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
>
>If you replace the word "game" with "match" in the Guiness Book entry, I believe
>all is corrected.
>
>David

As long as you also replace "1995" with "1996".

kp




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