Author: Michael Vox
Date: 04:15:08 06/12/03
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On June 10, 2003 at 20:06:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >What was the time-frame? And were all the games you mention 40 moves in >two hours, which was once the real tournament time control used in GM >tournaments (ie during the deep thought GM performance testing in the 80's >and early to mid 90's...) http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/comphis.htm In 1985 HITECH achieved a performace rating of 2530. In 1988 DEEP THOUGHT and Grandmaster Tony Miles shared first place in the U.S. Open championship. DEEP THOUGHT had a 2745 performance rating. In 1989 DEEP THOUGHT won the world computer championship in Canada, with a rating of 2600. The 11th AEGON Computer Chess Tournament (Mankind vs Machine) was held on April 10-17, 1996 in The Hague, Netherlands. There were 50 masters, International Masters, and Grandmasters and 50 computers (most playing on HP Pentium-166 machines with 16MB of RAM). Yasser Seirawan won the event with 6 straight wins and no losses. The best computer was QUEST, with 4.5/6 and a 2652 performance rating. The machines won with 162.5 points versus the humans with 137.5 points. --- I am not sure when the first micro became a GM. If a GM is 2500 it looks like HIITECH beat everyone out in 1988, not sure what the hardware was, but probably a mainframe. If a GM is 2600 then DEEP THOUGHT got it in 1989. In the Harvard Cup a micro named Quest scored 2600, this in 1996. --- If someone has better information please do not hesitate to add it.
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