Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 01:23:52 10/15/02
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Thanks to Guy Haworth for his good clarifications. On October 14, 2002 at 10:20:19, GuyHaworth wrote: >Whether or not 'Fritz played Deep Blue' is an issue of 'language and reality'. > >The official name in the WCCC, Hong Kong, 1995 was 'Deep Blue Prototype'. > >This was shortened, no doubt for typesetting reasons and because it didn't >seem to matter, to 'Deep Blue' in the final standings (and in the listings >of games). > >... > >For all of the reasons above, it is not correct to say that >"Fritz played Deep Blue which beat Kasparov." I fully agree. Please, let me explain why I wrote the original message. Some time (=years) ago I read a German advertisement of the ChessBase company. In fat letters they wrote "Fritz besiegte IBM's Deep Blue in der Computer-Weltmeisterschaft 1995" (roughly translated to English: Fritz beat IBM's Deep Blue in the Computer World Championship in 1995) I became angry a bit, having the opinion "How can they claim this? It was not Deep Blue in 1995." To make sure, I looked up things in the ICCA Journal (June 1995) and found what I quoted in my first message. And even more, the Chairman of the ACM Computer Chess Committee (Prof. M. Newborn) was cited with the sentence (p130): "For the last five years, the DEEP BLUE prototype has dominated the chess-playing computers." (I did not find Hsu's explanations in a later issue of the ICCA Journal, though.) This turned my mind, and I thought (and still think) "So the ChessBase text is ok". I never saw an intentionally misleading sentence like "Fritz played Deep Blue which beat Kasparov" in ChessBase advertisements. Ingo Althofer.
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