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Subject: Re: In chess we will reach diminishing returns just like in Checckers 1994

Author: martin fierz

Date: 04:20:13 10/30/03

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On October 30, 2003 at 06:29:55, Lars Bremer wrote:

>Hi,
>
>>after the aborted match against tinsley, chinook played and defeated the world's
>>number two player, don lafferty.
>
>Chinook didn't defeat Lafferty, the match was a draw, one victory for every side
>and a lot of draws. But that was enough to defend the title.

hi lars,

i know. but after that they played a second match, which chinook won. i was
referring to that one. so technically my sentence above is correct :-) - it just
omits the first drawn match vs. lafferty in between the tinsley match and the
second lafferty match. i left this out because i was answering the guy who felt
chinook hadn't *really* won the match. it finally won the match against the top
human in the end, although that wasn't tinsley any more...
to be accurate, tinsley was still alive during the second lafferty-chinook match
(he died about 3 months later) - but lafferty was the best active human player
at that time.

more on the chinook-lafferty match #2:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/matches/1995/Petal/description.php

cheers
  martin





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