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Subject: Re: Let's stop the debate/discussion.

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 10:21:22 04/28/05

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On April 28, 2005 at 12:19:58, chandler yergin wrote:

>The Fredkin Prize
>
>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.
>
>  "The Computers Won" all three stages..
>
>Congratulations to the winners!


I disagree. We must continue to persuade the computerchess people because
otherwise there is no future for computerchess vs human chess.



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