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Subject: Re: Who was the last human to win a match against a computer?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 14:34:24 11/13/03

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On November 13, 2003 at 17:23:00, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On November 13, 2003 at 17:13:10, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>It will certainly be very difficult for Kasparov to win his match against X3D
>>Fritz now.
>>
>>Who was the last human to beat a computer in a match? In April of 2002 GM Smirin
>>won the match against 4 different computer opponents. I'm not sure if this
>>counts as a single match or four different matches. Prior to Smirin, do we have
>>to go all the way back to Kasparov vs. Deep Blue 1?
>
>Kasparov defeated Deep Blue in 1996, 4-2.

That isn't looking to good for the humans if we have to go all the way back to
1996 to find a human winning a match of longer than 2 games against a single
computer. I'd love to see Smirin play a 6 or 8 game match against the same
computer opponent on current hardware (in his match the machines were dual
1GHz!).



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