Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 05:41:34 04/29/01
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On April 29, 2001 at 08:30:42, Gordon Rattray wrote: >On April 29, 2001 at 08:05:40, Dana Turnmire wrote: > >>On April 29, 2001 at 07:46:51, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>What kind of champion Kramnik really is? Did Kasparov requested to pratice >>>>against Kramnik three months before Kramnik himself challenge him?. NO!, >>>>therefore, if he is going to represent the human kind he should do it with >>>>honor. >>>> >>>>Pichard. >> >> Is It honorable for the chess program team to have access to Krammik's games >>on database to prepare for the openings? You sound like a spokesman for >>robotkind. I support mankind. >> I thought Deep Blue had an incredible advantage over Kasparov. > >But Kramnik *will* have access to some games by the computer too! For example, >supposing Deep Junior eventually plays Kramnik, I can download many games played >by Deep Junior. There is a big difference between access to games and access to >the player! > >I don't particularly support mankind or "robotkind", but I do support fair >matches and this match is turning out to be a joke. Unfortunately if Kramnik >wins it, people will summarise the result as "a human beat a computer in the >last man-machine match". They won't append "...but the human practiced against >the program for three months prior... and there may have been a stronger program >that didn't get a chance to compete... etc etc." > >Why did you think Deep Blue had an incredible advantage over Kasparov? Was it >because in *some* (not all) aspects it was a better chess player? > >Gordon The Deep Blue team had access to years of Kasparov's games with a GM preparing the opening books. Kasparov was playing completely blind. He wasn't even allowed to see any games by the program.
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