Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 12:45:31 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 13:22:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Bob, please take a look at http://hometown.aol.de/rolftueschen/SmallTalk.html Rolf Tueschen
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