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Subject: Re: Deep Junior 6 - Kasparov match

Author: Mark Schreiber

Date: 06:56:30 03/12/00

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I think Deep Junior would do better that 1:5. I also agree computers should play
in human tournaments. But unfortunately we are in the minority, even in this
forum. I asked this question in the opinion poll; if computers should be allowed
to play in the qualifying matches for the world championship? 272 out of 424
said no. This I don’t understand.

On March 12, 2000 at 07:47:50, Alessandro Morales wrote:

>>I am not sure if losing 5:1 or 6:0 against kasparov is going to increase
>>Junior's sales.
>>I expect kasparov to win at least 5:1 every commercial program.
>
>I think that Deep Junior 6 (on a Quad 500+ Pentium III) is not much weaker than
>Deeper Blue, also if it runs on an hardware 250 times slower..
>The difference is that Kasparov could buy Deep Junior 6 and then
>find how to beat it...before the true match starts.
>
>>No human could be the world champion without beating weaker players than
>>kasparov and I do not think that machines should have more rights.
>>
>>I think also that computers should play against humans in tournaments and  that
>>the decision not to let computers to play in most tournament is wrong.
>>
>
>Here I agree . National and International federations should let
>programs to participate to the tournaments exactly like an human player,
>starting from 1400 elo up to 2800+ .. They could also use the learning function
>if this file , the latest engine and opening library could be downloaded and
>updated before every match (using always the best hardware available..)
>So programs could be entities like real players...
>
>Alessandro Morales
>
>>Uri



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