Author: odell hall
Date: 23:33:25 11/06/98
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On November 07, 1998 at 00:03:08, Dann Corbit wrote: >Do you have an actual quote in a message *he* posted where he offered to play? I >specifically asked, and I do not remember seeing any. If I recall correctly, >someone sort of 'volunteered' for him to play without actually asking him. > >I don't think we should jump on Morovic. We don't know his actual >circumstances. I would very much like to see top players against top programs. >But in real life, it happens anyway on ICC and FICS. Sometimes under disguise, >and sometimes as the real thing. Some of the best players in the world do play >against computers. > >On the other hand, I also agree that tournament conditions are another thing >altogether, and you never know how serious they are fooling around on the net. >I think (just a silly notion) that some GM's may actually be _psyched_ at the >thought of playing computers since Kasparov got handed his hat. They don't >recogize the incredible gulf between Deep Blue and klone-pee-cee. On the other, >other hand, the gap between the very top players like Anand and Kasparov and a >2500 GM is probably as great as the gap between a PII 450 Mhz and Deep Blue. >Many orders of magnitude, in other words. I believe it was about two months ago or less that he posted the article here. I personally talked to him on Icc. He said that he was "very interested"in playing such a match. He then gave me permission to suggest the match to this group. And two days later to my surprise he posted a message here himself, this in my view confirmed even more his interest! Ofcourse there was I think one response to his post, so I imagine he got the impression no one was interested, which is obviously true from the lack of responses. I may be wrong but I think based on my conversation with schroer that he was Just as interested in the experiment itself as he was in money(which was not discussed). From my point of view if I was a programmer of rebel or genius I would jump at an oportunity like this to get exposure for my program. Schroer probally would not charge anymore than 300 dollars. Which to me would be a very investment for the potential publicity the program would recieve, win or lose! Hiarcs is still recieving fame for it's victory against Internation Master Hergott. And this victory was the reason I bought the program. I also think such a match would be benificial to schroeder.
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