Author: Marcos Christensen
Date: 14:29:28 05/14/00
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On May 14, 2000 at 17:00:03, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>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
Sorry if I'm being misunderstood, perhaps because english is not my native
language. I'm not blaming any tecnical error to justify Fritz defeat. I think
that was a big lesson that computer guys need to learn(resolve). And BTW
Kasparov lost was fair, as time showed it.
Kind regards
Marcos Christensen
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