Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:22:45 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 04:58:49, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On January 29, 1999 at 00:41:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 28, 1999 at 21:05:30, Peter Fendrich wrote: >> >>>Chess 4.0 won in Stockholm 1974 and not 1976 as I (and you) wrote. >>>//Peter >> >>I don't think they won in 1974 either. Kaissa did. They lost to Chaos that >>year in the famous Nxe6 sacrifice (chess 3.x was black). They won in 1977 in >>Toronto as I was there. Belle won in 1980... >> >>the first chess 4.0 was 1976... > >Confusion! >1) It was Chess 4.0 so they played the program in 1974 >2) They didn't won but took second place >3) My main point wasn't that but the little trick they > implemented 1974. I found it similar to the razoring trick. >4) The clock was 3 in the morning and I had "forgotten" to go to bed. > The same happened the night before. Shouldn't do that in my age! > >//Peter there is confusion. I am looking at the chess skill in man and machine book, and at my 1974 ACM computer chess booklet and there is disagreement. Chess 4.x did play in Stockholm, but it definitely lost to Chaos and didn't get to play the winner, Kaissa. They played an exhibition game and beat Kaissa, but the Russian program was the world champion. Chess 4.x did win in Toronto in 1977. The book (Chess Skill) says chess 4.6 played in 1974. That is wrong, as the tournament bulletin clearly says chess 4.0. Chess 4.6 was not seen in an acm tournament bulletin until Houston 1976. Not sure how the numbers got scrambled so badly...
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