Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:47:09 07/04/02
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On July 04, 2002 at 04:50:45, Mark Schreiber wrote:
>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.
"Ever developed" doesn't mean it is still in activity, just that the mark of
excellence hasn't been surpassed.
Albert
>Mark
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