Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 07:48:17 09/24/01
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On September 24, 2001 at 10:41:07, Lonnie Cook wrote: >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. I HOPE u do cause IBM does NOT have them. I would go here: http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/games/game3/html/move35a.html and then try to see or dl a log file, ERROR!! Why didn't IBM ever give these to GK right from the get go, seems to me they did some stalling for some "reason" >> >> >> >> >>> >>>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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