Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 00:21:40 10/17/02
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On October 17, 2002 at 00:51:45, Mike Byrne wrote: >http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1585437 > >you gotta love the last sentance - great spin ! > >"The contest -- postponed last year following the Sept. 11 attacks -- is a >sequel to Gary Kasparov's 1997 defeat by the supercomputer Deep Blue in New >York." > >Of course it's not true - but once it was published it became TRUE (to at least >millions of uninformed readers) - the spim masters - you gotta love them. How >about it -- Fritz is riding on the coattails of IBM 's Deep Blue ... The link doesn't work here, but in any case, I don't see anything wrong with the quoted sequence. Yes, it's a different computer. Yes, it's a different player. But for all means and purposes, this *is* the sequel of the DB-Kasparov match. -- GCP
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