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Subject: Re: Will Kasparov vs DeepJunior settle the Deep Bluevs PC controversy?

Author: Omid David

Date: 12:51:39 08/07/02

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On August 07, 2002 at 15:00:41, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>According to www.kasparovchess.com todays programmers are divided in the
>issue if todays PC programs are better equal or worse then Deepblue.It seems
>a lot of european programmers dont believe the 1997 Deepblue was stronger then
>todays best PC programmers(Hyatt thinks otherwise)(We may never know).But this
>Match could be a Step.It may depend on things like how well the Softeware
>handles Kingside attacks in closed positions (The Dortmund version (2000) had
>problems with this;as I remember)

I have said and continue to say that humans are *far* stronger than computers,
and Deep-Blue's win was nothing but a cheap "poker cheat" (of course this is
open for discussion). However if Junior beats Kasparov, certainly I and many
others who think like me, will shut up (for a while at least)!



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