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Article #863Re: Why can't a machine be World's Check
From: Jim Gillogly
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1985 00:29
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1985 00:29
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In article <9100002@ada-uts.UUCP> ron@ada-uts.UUCP writes:
>
>The Samuels checker program (mentioned in the first response to this note)
>was in fact better than all human players, including the world champion,
>at the time. In checkers, there's probably no comparison (today) between
>the best programs and the humans.
I claim that's not the case. It was in the same league as state champions,
but Samuel (not Samuels) didn't claim or believe that it was better than
all human players. I followed the literature pretty closely at the time,
being in the chess programming biz in the early 70s.
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Jim Gillogly
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