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Subject: Re: The "only" bad thing with Kramnik vs. Fritz!

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:57:20 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 20:59:39, Gregor Overney wrote:

>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

What's the matter? He could have learned for memmory a list of exact games in
Which Fritz loses!
Why shouldn't he have gone to the trouble? It's his career.
S.Taylor



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