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From: sylvere@divsun.unige.ch (Silvere Martin-Michiellot)
Subject: Re: Computer beats world chess champion.
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 15:11:40 GMT
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In article 1846@minster.york.ac.uk, rdd@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>I was somewhat surprised to see the following in the Spectator 
>(from the Electronic Telegraph, http://electronic.telegraph.co.uk):
>
>" Life, as is commonly observed, tends to reflect art. But I have never
>seen this exemplified so clearly as it was in last week's oddest news
>story: the defeat of the World Chess Champion Garri Kasparov by a 
>computer program called Chess Genius 2.0.  ...  " [by Dominic Lawson]
>
>I say `surprised' since I would have thought that an event like
>this would provoke much discussion; with the exception of
>the above I have seen none. Can someone out there confirm that
>this is not a hoax and that Kasparov really did suffer a defeat
>at the hands of a machine.
>
>R.
>
>

In fact, that's true. It happened last year (I think). There was an article in
Scientific American, talking about that. 
However, it happened only once, and the computer was defeated several times.
If I remember well, the Chess Genius 2.0 worked on a pentium 90.

Anyway, in ten year human superiority in Chess will be history.

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"Is anyone alive down there ?"

Silvere MARTIN-MICHIELLOT


