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Subject: Re: 1989 opinion poll and idea for new poll question

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 14:25:51 07/14/99

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On July 14, 1999 at 15:13:59, Peter Hegger wrote:

>Hello
>In 1989, at the world computer chess championship in Edmonton, David Levy asked
>participants:
>"In what year do you think a chess program will be able to defeat the human
>world champion?"
>Here are the answers.
>Year    Names
>1992    Gyula Horvath, Monty Newborn
>1993    John McCarthy
>1994    Hans Berliner, Marty Hirsch, Feng-hsuing Hsu
>1995    Murray Campbell, Larry Kaufmann, David Kittinger, Danny Kopec, Donald
>       Mitchie, David Slate, Mike Valvo
>1997    John Stanbeck
>1998    Kevin O'connell
>1999    Ed Felton, Tom Pronk, Sidney Samole, Claude Shannon, Jos Uiterwijk
>2000    Robert Hyatt, GM Kevin Spraggett, Victor Vikhrev, Jaap van den Herik
>2001    Jurg Nivergelt, Mark Taylor
>2002    IM Julio Kaplan
>2005    Richard Lang, Pierre Nolet, Ard van Bergen
>2008    Harry Nelson
>2010    Don Dailey, Ossi Weiner
>2011    Lars Hjorth
>2013    Tony Scherzer
>2014    David Levy
>2020    Tony Marsland
>2025    Dap Hartmann
>2030    Franz Morsch
>2040    Jonathan Schaeffer
>2050    Harm Bakker
>2056    Helmut Horacek
>NEVER   David Cahlander
>
>The mean average of these predictions is the year 2005.

	How did you average the «NEVER»?

>I thought it might be interesting to formulate a new opinion poll question
>asking "In what year do you think a computer chess program will be able to
>defeat the human world champion in a 20 game 40/2 match?"
>Any feedback is welcome.
>Regards
>Peter



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