Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!jim From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) Newsgroups: net.chess Subject: Re: Why can't a machine be World's Check Message-ID: <2644@randvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:29:36 EDT Article-I.D.: randvax.2644 Posted: Wed Aug 14 20:29:36 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:53:17 EDT References: <474@oakhill.UUCP> <9100002@ada-uts.UUCP> Organization: Banzai Institute Lines: 15 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. -- Jim Gillogly {decvax, vortex}!randvax!jim jim@rand-unix.arpa