Author: Alexander Kure
Date: 11:27:35 11/08/99
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On November 07, 1999 at 21:09:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snipped] >Lang may have dominated the micro programs.. but he _never_ dominated computer >chess. The 'program to beat' went like this: > >1960-1970 MacHack (Greenblatt) >1970-1977 chess x.x (slate) >1977-1979 chess x.x and belle (slate/thompson) >1980-1982 Belle/Chess x.x/Cray Blitz (slate, thompson, hyatt) >1983-1986 Cray Blitz >1987-present deep thought/deep blue (Hsu) > >No other programs were close during those time periods, if you talk about >'micro programs'. [snipped] Hi Bob, I think that your last sentence neglects the fact that Fritz 3 running on a Pentium 90 MhZ beat Deep Thought in Hongkong 1995. After this 'disgraceful' event the micros took the lead over the mainframes. Greetings Alex
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