Author: Walter Faxon
Date: 22:31:38 04/28/05
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On April 28, 2005 at 12:12:47, Steven Edwards wrote: (((snip))) >On another point: Fischer, despite all his ravings, has at least two points in >his favor compared to Kasparov with respect to computer chess. > >1. He played a three game match against Greenblatt's MacHack/Cheops system and >didn't ask for a guaranteed appearance fee. This was by no means any sort of official match, and there was no publicity besides Fischer's sending the game scores (under his copyright) to the "Computer Chess Newsletter", the distant ancestor of the ICGA Journal. IIRC, there was no mention of the Cheops hardware (I think it was a little early for that anyway) and I don't even think Greenblatt himself was involved, so the games might well have been against just some random copy of MacHack, which had been distributed by the DECUS user group. Probably the only people who knew about the games when they happened were Fischer and some computer-savvy friend. -- Walter
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