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Subject: Re: Microcomputers vs. Grandmasters

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 22:05:55 01/29/99

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On January 30, 1999 at 00:20:52, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

Ok, I was able to find that Fritz3 won the tournament 5-1. Does anyone have the
crosstable for the games?

It doesn't seem that a 5-1 victory in one tournament is destroying, but I guess
others will disagree since Fritz3 was on a micro whereas Deep Thought and Star
Socrates were on MP machines.

KarinsDad



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