Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:33:21 08/09/02
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On August 07, 2002 at 15:51:39, Omid David wrote: >On August 07, 2002 at 15:00:41, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: > >>According to www.kasparovchess.com todays programmers are divided in the >>issue if todays PC programs are better equal or worse then Deepblue.It seems >>a lot of european programmers dont believe the 1997 Deepblue was stronger then >>todays best PC programmers(Hyatt thinks otherwise)(We may never know).But this >>Match could be a Step.It may depend on things like how well the Softeware >>handles Kingside attacks in closed positions (The Dortmund version (2000) had >>problems with this;as I remember) > >I have said and continue to say that humans are *far* stronger than computers, >and Deep-Blue's win was nothing but a cheap "poker cheat" (of course this is >open for discussion). However if Junior beats Kasparov, certainly I and many >others who think like me, will shut up (for a while at least)! They are offering to give Kasparov $700,000 to show up and lose. He's only human and that's an awful big temptation. Why work a thousand times as hard for an extra 14%?
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