Author: Mike S.
Date: 23:16:18 10/27/00
If Kramnik manages to win today's game, the score would be 7,5:4,5 in his favour - practically the decision of the match. That would mean the most important change in chess since 1985, when Garry Kasparov defeated Karpov and became champion. Few of the other top-range Grandmasters are so closely related to computer chess as Kasparov is. Not only that he played the two famous Deep Blue matches: I remember him giving a simul exhibition against 32 chess computers in 1985, after the first cancelled Karpov match (32,0:0,0 of course). Later on, he advertised for Saitek (SciSys) chess computers... and there were numerous other appearances with games against chess programs. I'm sure that the end of the era Kasparov would influence computer chess too. First example: The "Championship Match" against a computer, announced for 2001, would probably not happen I think. We may have to expect a loss of general publicity for computer chess. Regards, M.Scheidl
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