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Subject: Re: historical comp-human games?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 09:55:39 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 10:09:46, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>On February 05, 2000 at 09:47:59, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>Dear Computer Chess Fans,
>>does anybody know what was the first win of a computer against an IM, and from
>>where I could download it (or even other similar important games)? Maybe it was
>>one of the Levy challenge games from the seventies; the data is hard to find.
>>
>>I am compiling a small database of historical important comp.-human games, which
>>I want to present in the replay zone of my website at
>>
>>http://members.surfeu.at/MScheidl
>>
>>The collection will be called "Sternstunden des Computerschachs" (= Great
>>Moments of Computerchess).
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>M.Scheidl
>
>Mike,
>
>In Chess Skill in Man and Machine ISBN 3-540-07957-2 Springer-Verlag   Berlin
>Heidelberg on page 213 there is a game between  Walter Browne,  USA (2547) and
>Chess 4.6 on a Cyber 176 computer from May 6,1978.  Browne resigned on the 64th
>move.

It was a simultaneous tournament, the GM was playing against 43 players !

In August 1987, Hitech beat en FIDE master(2315)
Early 1988, Hitech won 1.5-0.5 agaist Perecz (2355) FIDE master

All was serious games


>
>
>This book is in German and English--I gave you the German ISBN.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Tim Frohlick



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