Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 09:14:07 07/12/00
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On July 12, 2000 at 11:59:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >I see the tide turning in some of the message headers and now people are >apparently jumping ship. > >Deep Junior has already gone toe to toe with some of the very best players in >the world and come out much better than I would have imagined at this time >control. > >Quite frankly, I think it is more amazing than Deep Blue's performance against >Kasparov, considering the equipment difference. > >I don't think that Deep Junior will lose the rest of the games. But even if it >did, I would still be awesomely impressed by the incredible performance. > >It's amusing how with one win people are ready to proclaim D.J. world champion >and with one loss, something inferior. Kraminik is one of the elite players in >the world. A loss should not prove astonishing. > >Whatever the rest of the results are, Amir Ban and company deserve broad praise >for their astonishing efforts. Absolutely. Not only DJ scored extremely well, but it played some great games. I didn't expect Junior (or any other program) to do so well at all. Aside from this, I don't understand why Junior went against Kramnik for a line that Mig published months ago as the way to beat Junior 5. Enrique
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