Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:18:09 07/01/99
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On July 01, 1999 at 13:43:04, odell hall wrote: >This is a weird newgroup, !! The Biggest event in computer chess history just >took place, yet everyone is silent!! Wake up people! Promgrammers should be >celebrating at their achievement. I am not even a programmer but I am excited. This is _old_ news... it has happened so many times. So what is to jump up and down about. This became pretty obvious 2 years ago, that at game/25 or game/30, the computers are very difficult to stop. We played one round-robin event on chess.net with 4 computers and 4 GM players, the GM's included Roman, Larry Christiansen, Ivanov, and one 'synthetic' player made up of two GM players that each played some of the games (scheduling problems). All four computers finished ahead of all 4 GM players. We had another such event later with a double-round-robin. Same result, different computers, different humans (some were the same). When computers first started beating GM's at blitz (late 1970's and early 80's) it was news. It became passe'. The same thing has happened for game/25 and game/30. When it finally happens at 40/2hr games, that will be something new to get excited about...
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