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Subject: Re: What is the first chess program that won a master under tournament cont?

Author: Kristo Miettinen

Date: 06:42:14 05/07/99

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I don't know for certain, but CHESS 4.5 won the Minnesota Open Championship in
1977, which probably required at least one win against a master. It then played
in the closed championship and won one game, in a field that may well have been
mostly masters.

In 1978 IM David Levy lost game 4 of his match with CHESS 4.7 (a match he won
3.5 to 1.5), so 1978 at the latest was the first loss for a human master in a
game played under tournament conditions.



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