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Subject: Re: Kramnik should represent the human kind with honor, not by cheating !

Author: Gordon Rattray

Date: 05:30:42 04/29/01

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On April 29, 2001 at 08:05:40, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>On April 29, 2001 at 07:46:51, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>What kind of champion Kramnik really is? Did Kasparov requested to pratice
>>>against Kramnik three months before Kramnik himself challenge him?. NO!,
>>>therefore, if he is going to represent the human kind he should do it with
>>>honor.
>>>
>>>Pichard.
>
>  Is It honorable for the chess program team to have access to Krammik's games
>on database to prepare for the openings?  You sound like a spokesman for
>robotkind.  I support mankind.
>  I thought Deep Blue had an incredible advantage over Kasparov.

But Kramnik *will* have access to some games by the computer too!  For example,
supposing Deep Junior eventually plays Kramnik, I can download many games played
by Deep Junior.  There is a big difference between access to games and access to
the player!

I don't particularly support mankind or "robotkind", but I do support fair
matches and this match is turning out to be a joke.  Unfortunately if Kramnik
wins it, people will summarise the result as "a human beat a computer in the
last man-machine match".  They won't append "...but the human practiced against
the program for three months prior... and there may have been a stronger program
that didn't get a chance to compete... etc etc."

Why did you think Deep Blue had an incredible advantage over Kasparov?  Was it
because in *some* (not all) aspects it was a better chess player?

Gordon



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