Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 19:48:02 07/21/03
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On July 21, 2003 at 22:44:23, Slater Wold wrote: >On July 21, 2003 at 22:39:14, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On July 21, 2003 at 22:32:41, Sherry Washington wrote: >>[snip] >>> Well Computer Chess is a very broad Subject, I was specifically Discussing the >>>area of Computer Chess Strength, which I do believe Kasparov would know alot >>>more in that area then You. Ofcourse the programming aspects you would probally >>>know alot more then him. >> >>Kasparov has made horrible guesses about computer chess strength in the past. I >>think he is a very bad person to use as an expert. > >Can you think of a better expert on _chess_? > >Have you ever seen, with your own eyes, Kasparov go through a varation on a >chess board? > >He might not be the reigning king on 'how to beat a computer at chess', but by >God his opinions are far from 'unsubstantiated'. > >Do you think Kaspy has never played a computer on a PC, and that he's just >pulling these opinions from his ass? I am quite sure that he probably has >entered positions into <insert commercial program here>, and has been surprised >by what a little 'ol PC will do nowadays. I don't think his claims are 100% on >the dot, but I don't think he's talking non-sense either. Dann said: "he [Kasparov] is a very bad person to use as an expert [in computer chess]". I totally agree with him. Kasparov hardly knows how opening books work, let alone other areas... The fact that Kasparov is the unrivaled expert is chess, doesn't make him a computer chess expert.
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