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It's like there's no longer any point in having the human chess champion play the latest supercomputer because he was beaten several years ago and the computers are only getting better.

Bob




More like its going on several decades ago, Bob.

Carnegie Mellon Univ. and "Deep Thought" was the original project name, later changed to "Deep Blue" (can you tell who must've funded from that? )

Anyway, the first time the computer beat a human Chess Master was in 1989. The machine beat none other than the great Kasparov.

I was on the other side of the campus at the time over a the Field Robotics Center, helping out as best I could in support of the development of the world's first totally autonomous vehicle.

Over thirty years ago.

I must be havin' fun, cuz time has been FLYIN'...


--Mac