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Subject: Re: Microcomputers vs. Grandmasters

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:20:52 01/29/99

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On January 29, 1999 at 23:53:38, KarinsDad wrote:

>On January 29, 1999 at 22:34:54, robert flint wrote:
>
>>i would has anyone forgotten that fritz3 destroyed deep thought !!!! this should
>>be proof alone i agree with matt frank he has a good arguement. brute for means
>>nothing it is the qaulity of the program that matters. take a class c player let
>>him look at a difficult mate in say 7moves. give this player 5 hours to look at
>>the position he may never solve it!!!!!  now let a grandmaster with years of
>>expierence look at it for a few minutes and he'll most surely win the win! my
>>point is that knowledge will alway overcome brute for!!!
>
>Destroyed? Could you please tell me when that was? Did it just win a tournament
>or did it get crushed in a match? Please provide details (I'm sketchy on stuff
>from years ago).
Dateline 1995:
Fritz wins the Computer Chess World Championship in Hongkong on a P90, beating
the two fastest parallel machines in the tournament with Black: Deep Thought and
Star Socrates.

Pretty historic, because a micro won the open computer chess championship.
Now that Deep Blue is counting beans for somebody, it could happen again.



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