Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 20:49:49 04/07/99
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On April 07, 1999 at 20:54:18, Adnan wrote: > >I just did a quick search in DejaNews and rec.games.bridge and found much more >about the bet. I said six million, but the challenge actually is for one million >dollars. The player's name, from Pakistan, is Zia Mahmood. > >After reading some posts, I noticed that a program called "Gib" accepted the >challenge and played two matches against this guy's human team for one million >dollars but lost both matches. "Gib's" web site is at http://www.gibware.com/ > >Apparently it is a controversial topic. Some people in rec.games.bridge were >saying that Zia would lose the bet within an year or so and others were >disagreeing. Just do a power search in Deja News archive for "Zia bet" (without >the quotes) in rec.games.bridge. Looks something similar to all the controversy >we had about chess and computers:-) This was a situation where the human world champion ate crow. After seeing what happened to Kasparov, and seeing how good GIB plays (GIB's author, Matt Ginsberg, is visiting my university this week!), he chickened out! Check out the page http://www.imp-bridge.nl/articles/The_GIB2Zone.html for a funny anecdote! (Look for "San Francisco" near the top of the article.) Dave Gomboc
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