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Subject: Re: Kramnik should represent the human kind with honor, not by cheating !

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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