From daemon Mon Dec 19 21:25 PST 1988 Return-Path: Message-Id: <8812200507.AA05357@vtopus.cs.vt.edu> Received: from mc.lcs.mit.edu by RELAY.CS.NET id aa12314; 19 Dec 88 18:27 EST Date: Mon 19 Dec 1988 12:51-EST From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Us-Mail: MIT LCS, 545 Tech Square, Rm# NE43-504, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-6524 Subject: AIList Digest V8 #141 To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Status: R AIList Digest Tuesday, 20 Dec 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 141 Chess: A.I. Chess Deep Thought claiming Fredkin Intermediate Prize 6th World Computer Chess Championship ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 10 Nov 88 01:18:28 GMT From: ecsvax!burgin@mcnc.org (Robert Burgin) Subject: A.I. Chess I just received a flyer advertising A.I. Chess and touting it as "the world's strongest PC program." Does anyone know any further details? How strong is it? Is its strength based on an over-the-board rating or what? Does it have opening 'books'? --rb ------------------------------ Date: 10 Nov 88 16:06:22 GMT From: glacier!jbn@labrea.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle) Subject: Re: A.I. Chess The current state of the art is that the hottest Fidelity unit is just above FIDE 2200. At the supercomputer end, Deep Thought just broke 2500. John Nagle ------------------------------ Date: Saturday, 17 December 1988 10:39:16 EST From: Feng-Hsiung.Hsu@vlsi.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Deep Thought claiming Fredkin Intermediate Prize It is not official until USCF certified all the game results, but Deep Thought has now met all the requirements for the $10,000 Fredkin Intermediate Prize for the first chess computer to perform at over 2500 (actually the performance rating is about 2660, USCF scale) for 25 consecutive games. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Deep Thought played in the $130,000 Software Toolworks Championship which featured heavyweight players like former World Champion GM Mikhail Tal, the "Great Dane" GM Bent Larsen who was in top 10 of the World only a few years back, GM Samuel Reshevsky, GM Walter Browne, GM Tony Miles, GM Gruenfeld, GM Gurevich, and several IMs. Deep Thought scored 6.5 out of 8 to tie for first place with GM Tony Miles. This is the first time a computer being a co-winner of a tourament with over $100,000 prize fund, or for that matter, any tourament with GM playing (Deep Thought, being a computer, is not elligible to the tourament prizes.). GM Bent Larsen lost to Deep Thought in the third round to become the first GM to lose to a computer in a regular tourament. Larsen's 2560 FIDE rating makes him the highest FIDE rated player to ever lose to a computer. Deep Thought's 2745 (USCF scale) performance in this tourament is also by far the highest ever for a computer. (Note: USCF rating is usually inflated by about 70-100 points with respect to FIDE rating. Gary Kasparov, the reigning world champion, is about FIDE 2760, or about USCF 2830-2860.) The 6-month old Deep Thought has now played 42 rated games. It played against International Masters 7 times, and won 5, drew 2, no loss. It played International Grand Masters 3 times, and won 1, lost 2 (the loss against GM Lev Alburt was due to a bug that caused the machine to throw away a repetition draw). The Deep Thought team would like to take this opportunity to thank all those whose help and encouragement made this possible, particularly Lawrence Butcher, Stuart Cracraft, Jim Gillogly, Peter Jansen, Larry Kaufman, Kai-Fu Lee, Tom Mitchel, Raj Reddy, Danny Sleator, Ken Thompson, Hide Tokuda, John Zsarnay and our advisors, Roberto Bisiani, Ed Clarke, H. T. Kung, and Bob Sproull. The Deep Thought team includes: Thomas Anantharaman, Mike Browne, Murray Campbell, Feng-hsiung Hsu, and Andreas Nowatzyk, all with the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. ------------------------------ Date: 17 Dec 88 23:27:15 GMT From: attcan!utgpu!watmath!alberta!tony@uunet.uu.net (Tony Marsland) Subject: 6th World Computer Chess Championship EVENT May 28 to 1 June 1989 6th World Computer Chess Championship and Workshop on "New Directions in Game-Tree Search". Sponsor: Canadian Information Processing Society Contact: Tony Marsland, Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2H1. Phone: (403)-432-3971 or UUCP: ..!ihnp4!alberta!tony CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: 1 March 1989 Workshop: "New Directions in Game-Tree Search" Place: Edmonton, Canada, Date: 28 May - 1 June 1989. Submit: 4 copies of double-spaced draft (10-20 pages) to Dr. T.A. Marsland, Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2H1 or electronically to tony@alberta.cdn or TAMA@UALTAMTS.BITNET ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************