Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:12:50 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 17:56:53, Mike S. wrote:
>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
You are starting to see the light, Mike! :)
Q: what has been the worst thing that has ever happened to computer chess?
A: the victory of Deep Blue over G. Kasparov in 1997.
Christophe
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