Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 19:24:47 06/06/01
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On June 06, 2001 at 22:04:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 06, 2001 at 19:19:29, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On June 06, 2001 at 16:58:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On June 06, 2001 at 16:37:59, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >>> >>>>Nice article of the new reigning star ... please have a look in >>>>http://www.iht.com/articles/21874.html >>>> >>>>The article is by David Burgess (Copyright Intl. Herald Tribune 2001). >>> >>> >>>Based on reading the article, David Burgess couldn't find his butt with a >>>double-handfull of fish hooks. The first paragraph is the first thing that >>>is totally wrong. Fritz never beat the DB program that beat Kasparov. It >>>never even played it in a public game. >>> >>>I didn't read past that paragraph since it was so hideously wrong. >> >> >> >>I agree. >> >>But according to Fernando this is great entertaining journalism. >> >>It's a pity to think that this kind of shit is the only thing about computer >>chess that reaches the general audience. >> >> >> >> Christophe > > >All I can say is <sigh>. If DB had remained active, at least this kind of >nonsense would not happen... but... But it did do to DB out of service, too bad, really. People for the most part don't care, so this kind of story just makes for good reading and hype for DeepFritz7 as we're not going to see the likes of DB for sometime to come. Fritz3 lucked out on a game in 1995 against an earlier version of DB which was bieng prepared to play Kasparov, so the author just ran with that to boost the hype and entertainment value for the story. If we're very lucky after the DF7 match between Kramnik, which I have no doubt he'll win in a convincing fashion, might spur another DB type of match eventually. All we can do is hope for the moment! IBM, not too likely, but maybe some other company like Intel? Who knows? Regards, Terry
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