Author: Mark Schreiber
Date: 10:08:33 07/04/02
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On July 04, 2002 at 10:47:09, Albert Silver wrote: >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 Your point is correct. Their statement is not entirely false, but a matter of opinion. Mark
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