Author: chandler yergin
Date: 12:46:33 04/26/05
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On April 26, 2005 at 14:44:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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??? As I Posted! 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! Awarded to IBM in 1997. What don't you understand? What do the previous stages have to do with what happened in 1997? Why do deliberately try and Provoke me? Hmmm?
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