Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:19:18 10/13/99
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On October 13, 1999 at 03:02:22, Howard Exner wrote: >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). My memory definitely could be fuzzy. I recall the Fredkin stage 2 prize as specifically saying a rating > 2500, and vaguely thought it was against GM players only, but am not certain (the Fredkin rules are in an old ICCA journal at my office, which I will try to find when I get there). > >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? there were 3, total. the first went to Ken Thompson and Belle. For having the first program rated over 2200. The second to DT for the 2600 tpr it maintained for 25 games, the last to DB for beating Kasparov.
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