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Subject: Re: DB will never play with REBEL, they simple are afraid no to do well

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 00:02:22 10/13/99

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On October 13, 1999 at 01:13:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>totally wrong impression.  Deep Thought II produced a 2600 TPR against
>GMs in 25 consecutive games to claim the fredkin 2 prize.  Searching about
>3M nodes per second.

An article about the Fredkin Award.
You probably have the printed copy of this but I post the URL
for those interested.
http://aaai.org/Magazine/Issues/Vol10/10-02/vol10-02.html

Note, this is an "Acrobat Reader" article so you'll need that software to read
it.

To summarize:

1. It's an article from Hans Berliner for the American Association for Articial
Intelligence from 1989.

2. The Fredkin prize is a USCF performance rating of over 2500 over a period of
25  contiguous games from human tournaments (no mention of the competition being
just GM's - it was any human that would normally be paired over the course of a
tournament).

3. In the article the tournaments are are listed. It's record vs GMs was 1
win(Bent Larsen) and two losses. Against IMs it was 5 wins and 2 losses.

You called it the Fredkin 2 prize so maybe the above article
is on the Fredkin 1 prize? Were there two such awards or just one?





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