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From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly)
Newsgroups: net.chess
Subject: Re: Why can't a machine be World's Check
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:29:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 20:29:36 1985
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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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