Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:22:09 10/21/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 03:20:12, Ingo Althofer wrote: >Feng Hsiung Hsu [=CrazyBird] edited his ICC session. >Amongst other things he wrote: > >>CrazyBird: [the assertion that Deep Blue played Fritz in 1995 is a] false >>advertisement. deep blue does not exist until 1996. >>CrazyBird: the new chip was not completed until january 1996... >>CrazyBird: they [commercial vendors] relabeled the machine [Deep Thought II] >>they played to take advantage of the publicity. > >This is not true. >Deep Thought II did not participate in a 1995 tournament. > >In the World Computer Chess Championship 1995 in Hong Kong >IBM started exactly with the name "Deep Blue Prototype". >Deep Blue Prototype lost against Fritz in the final round. >Fritz became World Champion. Deep Blue Prototype ended on >a shared third rank (with the best tie-breaking points). > >Don't try to change history! The whole Deep Blue project was >an impressive and successful endeavour. Don't try to steal >the (smaller) fruits the competitors have earnt. > >Ingo Althofer. The point is that it wasn't "deep blue". It was _clearly_ deep though hardware. The deep blue chess chips were not available for testing until early 1996, which makes it impossible for them to have been used in 1995's WCCC.
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