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From: jesup@pawl8.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
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Subject: Re: Incredible reports about the HITECH II chess automaton vs. IGM players
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Date: 2 Apr 88 21:44:59 GMT
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In article <490@eos.UUCP> jaw@eos.UUCP (James A. Woods) writes:
>     That's where I left off on that front.  However, yesterday, principals
>at CMU pretty much confessed via E-mail that only four extra ply (plus
>new positional stuff in the evaluation function) seemed to "crack the wall".
>Indeed, there was a hush-hush Ebeling/Hsu/Berliner collaboration,
>and they were getting really lopsided results against "old HITECH",
>like 87-0-4 win-loss-draw in testing.  Of course, the foundry couldn't roll

	Right. <sarcasm> I note that this message was sent a 5am on April 1.
A coincidence?

>while a Japanese foundry is pounding on yield.  What they *did* do was to
>temporarily lash up forty-odd 2nd-generation chips in a MINIX configuration
>ala the Schaeffer experiments, and *this* was the prototype being rushed
>to Bobby!

	Note that Minix is a PC unix-like operating system, and has nothing
to do with Chess.  Also, since when does Fisher have ANYTHING to do with
chess nowadays, computer or otherwise?

	A very well done April Fools joke.  I compliment you.

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