Author: Mark Schreiber
Date: 01:50:45 07/04/02
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On July 03, 2002 at 21:53:00, Keith Ian Price wrote: >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 They also say “Presently deep blue is the most powerful and fastest chess playing computer ever developed.” This is also false. Presently deep blue does not play chess, or do anything else. Deep blue does not exist. It was dismantled, never to play again. Mark
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