Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 02:48:59 09/24/01
Wow, I nearly fell of my chair yesterday! While the Kramnik victory over Kasparov was worth maybe 10 seconds of news time on TV there was a half-hour long interview with Kasparov on the TV last night! Unfortunately I wasn't able to capture it with the computer :( The interview was very interesting and Kasparov appeared very charismatic and intelligent. He truly was an excellent promotor for chess. They touched upon a few nice points, especially the relation between chess and politic in Russia. (nice quote: 'why would I go into Russian politics? There is no such thing!') He linked his 'revolutionary' rise in '85 with the start of perestroika, and expressed his doubts about the current Russian political state. He gunned down the interviewer when the poor man tried to make an association between playing chess and getting mad ;) He talked about Kramink's world title, and mentioned several times that Kramink should prove the legitimacy of his title, and that he is really the best player, either by playing (and winning!) tournaments or by playing Kasparov again. They also talked about Deep Blue, and Kasparov again 'forgot' that IBM _did_ publish Deeper Blue's logfiles. Nothing really new here. No word about the Kramnik - Fritz match. One interesting point was that he thought humans and computer should be compared at their peaks. His reasoning was that computers always play at the same level (no fatigue/concentration/ personal problems) while humans cannot. For a fair comparisation we should only look at the peak human performance. Based on this, he stated that computer should not be considered superior to humans until the humans cannot win a _single_ game out of a match of 6, 8 or even 12 games. -- GCP
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