Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:44:22 04/26/05
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On April 26, 2005 at 12:29:27, chandler yergin wrote: >The Fredkin Prize was $100,000 for the first team to build or program >a computer that would defeat the World Champion in a Match! > >The Deep Blue Team won it. No it wasn't It was a three stage prize. The first for the author of the first computer to achieve a master chess rating. Awarded to Belle in 1983. The second for the first program to produce a 2600 performance rating over 25 consecutive games against grandmaster players in long (40 moves in 2 hours or slower) games. Awarded to deep thought in the early 1990's. The final stage was to beat the world champion in a match. Awarded to IBM in 1997. Your point would be???
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