Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 10:29:37 04/12/02
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On April 12, 2002 at 13:24:17, Roy Eassa wrote: >On April 12, 2002 at 08:34:10, Eduard Nemeth wrote: > >>nemeth-games by Tim Krabbe: >> >>http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/honor.htm > > >One quote from there: > >"But perhaps Nemeth's greatest invention is an absurd anti-computer gambit that >I would like to call the Nemeth Gambit. Using it, he beat five of the world's >strongest chess programs in one day. > > The characteristic position arises after: 1.e4 c5 2.Na3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Bc4 >Nf6 5.h3 Nxe4 6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Qh5+ Ke6 8.Qg4+ Kd5 9.c4+ dxc3 10.Be3" Read on, Roy... (...) It is possible that Nemeth (like me) went through some trial-and-error before he won these games, but that is not the point; the point is that it is possible to beat the strongest chess programs in the world with the Nemeth Gambit, or with 1.d4 h5 2.e4 e5. Of course, computers also find good moves that a human would never think of, and they're a great help in analysis, but what I want to demonstrate is that they don't "play chess". As the above games show, they have passed the capturing test, but they're a long way from passing the Turing test. In spite of all the blustering about Kramnik who will "defend humanity's honor against the computer" (Der Spiegel) and "gain revenge for the human race" (The Telegraph), his upcoming match against some Fritz has, apart from the money involved, no more significance than a match between a cat and a book for the greatest weight. As a defender of humanity's honor, I prefer Nemeth. (...) Regards, Otello
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