Author: pavel
Date: 17:26:45 04/28/02
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On April 28, 2002 at 20:11:36, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On April 28, 2002 at 19:57:48, José Carlos wrote: > >> Yes, good news! >> Some years ago, we were impressed and suprised every time a chess program >>beated an IM or GM, and the programmer received a lot of congratulations and >>compliments. >> Now, one of the strongest players in the world wins a game against a program >>and we find it a great success for humanity. It only can mean that we're now >>used to see programs winning over and over against strong players. > >That's incorrect IMO. The primary effort thus far have been concentrated on >discovering whether the engine was replaced, sabotaged or operated incorrectly >when it lost. Not exactly the greatest achievement of humanity. > >Regards, >Mogens Behind every achievement, there is a "flaw". The fact is Smirin won (in what a way) against a program (whether GT or CT) in the best possible setting. The argument whether GT is better than CT against human (or otherwise), whether anti-human=on is better than anti-human=off against human (or otherwise), is not imprtant, because you cannot be happy with any settings, specially if you lose a game like that. And again you can never have a "perfect" setting, who knows maybe smirin didnt have a "perfect" breakfast before this game? Had he lost the game, would he blame the breakfast for it? pavs ;)
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