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From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
Newsgroups: net.games.chess
Subject: Re: Results of Fredkin Tournament
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Date: Wed, 1-Jan-86 04:03:15 EST
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In article <714@k.cs.cmu.edu> berliner@k.cs.cmu.edu (Hans Berliner) writes:
>This year the Fredkin event was an invitational tournament which
>consisting of 8 human Pittsburgh Masters (10 exist, and two declined to
>play) and Hitech, the North American Computer Chess Champion. [ ... ]

Would it be possible to post the games played by Hitech in this event?
I haven't been too impressed by computer chess play in the past, but
Hitech seems to have made some kind of breakthrough.

If anyone can make computers play good chess these days, I'm sure
former World Correspondence Champion Hans Berliner can.

I would also be curious to see a correspondence tournament including
Hitech and some strong Postal Masters.

Finally, I have seen some terrible endgame play by computers. Has
there been a breakthrough in that area?

    -Tom