Author: Gregor Overney
Date: 17:59:39 10/08/02
Well, it seems that Kramnik controls this PC program and, should he continue to perform at his current level, Kramnik will most certainly win. The "only" disturbing thing is that now some folks will indeed proclaim that the human brain outperforms any computer system the human brain is capable of building. The answers is no. Of course not! (See the game of 1997 as an example.) Although some journalists try to manipulate the opinion of the general public that Deep Blue and the program Fritz running on a multiprocessor PC are indeed comparable in strength, for us it is very obvious that this cannot be the case. It is easier to find flaws in certain evaluation functions than to outthink brute force searches with decent algorithms (such as implemented in Deep Blue). In any case, these games proof that PC programs are not yet winning against top players at standard time settings. Gregor
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