Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 14:00:03 05/14/00
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On May 14, 2000 at 15:53:04, Marcos Christensen wrote: > I agree, and I'm happy with vanWely victory. But I'm just questioning what I >SAW (and I saw fritz out of book in move 5). I think that if computers will play >humans tournaments this kind of game will be more frequent. In the game before >Fritz won because of anxiety of his opponent. This kind of events, with rebel >matches and Israel championship will put some break in the inflated SSDF >ratings. Kasparov had a "book error" against Deep Blue AFAIK, which was wrongly interpreted as the end of mankinds (or womankinds) ambition to fend off computer chess programs ever again. The chances of human players making those kind of errors, if there indeed were any in the van Wely-Fritz game, is much more possible in my opinion. I don't think it makes sense only to accept human wins if the computer plays a flawless game, or avoids any operational error (?). Otherwise there's always going to be something wrong in the eyes of the biased beholder. I don't think it's productive to assume, I don't say you do, that a human loses because he/she was outplayed, while computers loses due to technical error only. Sincerely, Mogens
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