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Subject: Re: and now for something completely different....

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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