Author: James T. Walker
Date: 04:54:16 03/13/00
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On March 12, 2000 at 09:56:30, Mark Schreiber wrote: >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. ******* Hello, Don't interpret the poll incorrectly. Asking if they should be playing in World Championship qualifying matches is not the same as asking if computers should be allowed to play in regular tournaments. I think most of us here would like to see them playing in regular tournaments but not for the World Chamionship untill they have proven they belong with the elite players. Jim Walker ********* > >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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