Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 03:52:12 10/15/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 04:23:52, Ingo Althofer wrote: >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. Fo me the greatest misleading hype was the advertisement with the SSDF Elo numbers. Without mentioning that _their_ Elo is NOT the same as human Elo. The result is to be seen in Bahrain. Fritz is no >2700 player! Rolf Tueschen
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