Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:55:44 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 15:45:31, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >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 I can't get anything from that address. What is it supposed to be?
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