Author: Mike S.
Date: 14:56:53 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 16:09:30, Christophe Theron wrote: >That's obvious. >My congratualtions to ChessBase. They have done an excellent job for their baby, >and also an excellent job for computer chess in general. >This is not humour, I *really* mean it. >Life is not a zero-sum game. In real life, you can achieve a great victory even >if your opponent wins. >That's exactly what's happening here. Kramnik wins. Fritz wins. Computer chess >wins! I doubt it... most often, a loss simply is a loss. Did you mean the advertising effect? It fits here too, what I've just written above in http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?257490 , that more important than the number of points will be IMO, if it can score at least one *win*. If *this* cannot be achieved, it would be a major setback for computerchess or even for A.I. - Because we know, in a wider public of non-insiders, everything is simplified down to a nearly idiotic level... and they will say, superiority of machines in chess was just an illusion etc. etc. (just like the sceptics always said before Deep Blue won). (I didn't realise before the match started, how risky it probably was to challenge Kramnik in that respect... also, being in the news worldwinde with draw-loss-loss-draw-loss etc. isn't the best advertisement neither. So ChessBase took a big risk in a commercial sense, too.) Regards, Mike Scheidl
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