Author: walter irvin
Date: 15:54:14 01/21/00
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On January 21, 2000 at 15:34:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Here is the relevent quote from Hsu's book: > > After the Software Toolworks tournament... > > "The race for the Fredkin Intermediate Prize was officiall over. Deep > Thought performad at 2776 for this (USCF scale) event, slightly behind > the Hall of Fame result which was 2790 (hall of fame was another event it > played in). By 1998 DT had played 42 rated games, including all the > games played with serious bugs (US Open) was 2598. The best 25-game > performance over the period was 2655 or 155 points higher than the > requirements for the Fredkin Intermediate Prize" > >The opponents are listed in Monty's book... as are many of the game >scores... > >Remember that DT's official USCF rating was 2551, which is lower than the >performance rating for the same games, since the formula changes after >the first 24 games are played. However multiple 2700+ performance ratings >are remarkable. Particularly considering how much stronger DB/DB2 were than >deep thought... i wish there was a pc program deep blue ,i know it would not quite be the same but maybe it could be like crafty is to your world champion mainframe monster ? ??? i would buy it and im sure there would be great intrest by every body .
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