Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 04:03:09 07/04/02
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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 Kasparov won the match in Philadelphia. My guess is that the Guiness editors have no idea what they are talking about. José.
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