Author: blass uri
Date: 06:55:31 01/19/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 21:51:54, Dann Corbit wrote: >Let's suppose the worst. IBM decided to cheat. Now, folks like Anand and >Karpov are not going to risk a lifetime ban by doing something illegal. So it >would pretty much have to be a lower-eschelon player. [Well, they could have >crammed RJF into that box, but he would have been deathly afraid of a sinister >plot, I'm afraid -- so I think we can rule that out also]. > >So what are we left with? How do you cheat against the world's best player (by >a landslide?)??? > >You have some lower level GM who can be tempted and yet will *never* spill the >beans (hmm -- it seems it would take millions to do that, but what if he put the >money in a Swiss bank account and decided to write a book... Sounds a bit risky >doesn't it) > >In short the cheater theories are idiotic. It does not work. Even if you could >somehow pull it off, you would be sneaking in some high school track star to run >against Michael Johnson. And then taking the ENORMOUS risk that for the rest of >his life, he would keep his mouth shut. > >It's ludicrous. Insanely, bizarre. I can't imagine how such a foolish >expression can even escape the lips of any intelligent, thinking person. > >But forget all that, and suppose that you somehow manage to have a very clever >human (maybe we get a 2600GM who hates GK's intestines) to participate. The >human says "Rxb2" and the computer says "a4." Whom do you believe? The GM >can't outplay Kasparov -- we already know that. The human cannot outplay kasparov but a team of a human and computer can do it. It is possible that the human is intelligent enough to know when he cannot help and when he can help. I do not believe in the conspiracy theory but it is clearly possible that a team of deeper blue and 2600 or even 2400 player is better than deeper blue. I believe that a team of me and a commercial program is better than a commercial program inspite of the fact that commercial programs are more than 400 elo points better than me. Uri
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