Author: K. Burcham
Date: 14:35:00 12/13/03
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On December 13, 2003 at 16:28:48, steven blincoe wrote: >So far..every question i have posed has been answered in fine fashion.. >here then is a real toughie.. > >Who can tell me the name of the dedciated chess computer that won the 1982 World >Championship.? > >hint: >the 1981 champion was the Scisys Mark V and the 1983 winner was the Fidelity >Budapest program(contained in the Prestige,Elite A/S and SC12 models) > >NO INTERNET SEARCHING ALLOWED! >:)) >Steve would I go to a bar with a bunch of beer addicts and tell them "got a trivia question, but not for beer drinkers"? answer: there wasnt one. http://www.computerschaak.nl/wcc_hist.html 1982 The first game between a grandmaster and a computerprogram under normal competition terms (40/2,5h) was played. The Dutchmen J.H.Donner won against Belle. The13th ACM-tournament was held in USA. It was a tie between four programs, Belle, Cray Blitz, Nuchess and Chaos. Advance 2.4 won the European Microcomputer Champions In 1982 BELLE was confiscated by the State Department as it was heading to the Soviet Union to participate in a computer chess tournament. The State Department claimed it was a violation of a technology transfer law to ship a high technology computer to a foreign country. BELLE later played in the U.S. Open speed championship and took 2nd place. kburcham
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