Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 07:41:07 09/24/01
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On September 24, 2001 at 09:44:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 24, 2001 at 05:48:59, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>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. > > >That is the saddest part of the whole thing.... Perhaps I should put the >log files on my ftp site, and whenever this comes up, an interviewer could >respond "but what about those log files from IBM that are on Hyatt's FTP >site???" Please do Bob, I would like a look at them. I never thought they were published publicly or I would have got them a while ago. > > > > >> >>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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