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Subject: Re: kasparov did not arrive to Israel for the match against Deep Junior

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 10:59:46 01/06/03

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On January 06, 2003 at 12:42:50, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On January 06, 2003 at 12:16:19, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>I sincerely hope the game does go ahead on shedule in the USA. I personally
>>regard it as the most important computer chess game since DB '97. A REAL chance
>>to directly compare a micro against DB.
>
>No, it's entertainment, and that's it. This is a far cry from a scientific test
>of _any_ kind.
>
>
>>Anyway - Junior is the program that's playing, and if the game does go ahead,
>>the information it will yield will be invaluable.
>
>Yeah sure. :p
>
>Case "Junior wins"
>-The prize money was ridiculous anyway! (compared to the money he gets for just
>showing up)
>-It was just too much psychological stress for Kasparov before the match, since
>it was delayed soo many times
>-Unfair conditions! K didn't have exactly the version of J that he played
>against!
>-Unfair! The book was mean! :p
>-what not
>
>
>Case: "Draw"
>-The prize money was ridiculous (see above)
>-Kramnik probably payed him, so he(Kramnik) doesn't lose face
>-The sponsors payed Kasparov to draw the last game!
>-what not
>
>
>Case: "K wins"
>-Junior is not the best program against humans anyway!
>-The version of Junior was only beta-quality! Why didn't they use the
>well-tested Junior7!?
>-what not
>
>
>Anyway, I look forward to see the games too - if they ever play. It's surely fun
>for every (computer-)chess enthusiast to watch these kind of events. It has
>_nothing_ to do with science though.. of course we'll still have an endless
>debate about the result afterwards in CCC. [and I'm sure DeepBlue will be
>mentioned too ;)]
>

It might be scientific, it might be not. Anyway, it will definitely be more
scientific than the IBM match for sure.


>Sargon



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