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Subject: Re: Hydra is the perfect machine to cruch Kramnik or Kasparov

Author: Daniel Jackson

Date: 23:19:12 08/24/04

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On August 25, 2004 at 01:36:05, Vikrant Malvankar wrote:

>I am firmly with Hydra I don't care if anyone here thinks it as arrogance. For
>that matter I consider Garry to be more arrogant thinking World Championship to
>be his own property. he is maintaining high rating only because he is playing
>one tourney a year as rightly said by Vladimir Kramnik. I think Vladimir or
>Anand or for that matter even Leko is more eligible to represnt human race
>aginst such a computer thatn Garyy\ at the moment. In any Human vs Computer
>match I will be rooting for Human except when Garry is playing the match. Bythe
>way Gary is at his lowest this year as u can see Linares. I hope if such a match
>is conducted Garry is crushed.
>
>In hydra's case U r right that he played on the superior hardware but we should
>not comment on a hardware that has not played a official game against a GM so
>far. I personally doubt if Hydra will play very poorly if given a smaller amt.
>of Processing speed and RAM. Also I tjink Chilly as done great work in the chess
>code he will improve further to take computer chess to the new level where a
>machine will be able to beat human in closed positions involving long term
>plans. I will fill proud the day human is beaten in such a position. As for
>technology dominating Human beings is impossible. A chess Game should be taken
>sportingly. Everytime I read kasparov beaten we say oh well Human race has lost.
>Mind u Human race has won cos we have created the technology u should rather
>than seeing the flop side see the amt. of effort a chess progammer has put into
>his program. I don,t think there is any arrogance in whatever i am writing here
>because i am writing from my heart and noboy can change my heart

You're entitled to your opinion, but I think you're being to harsh with
Kasparov, and that is my opinion.

Also, Vladimir Kramnik who speaks so freely about Garry Kasparov, hasn't had the
intestinal fortitude, to allow Mr. Kasparov a rematch!

He's afraid of losing!



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