Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:31:41 08/13/02
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On August 14, 2002 at 00:04:59, Russell Reagan wrote: >On August 13, 2002 at 19:26:41, Anson T J wrote: > >>Why do you say that? Why was it a "blow"? > >The reason is that the Kasparov vs. Deeper Blue match turned out to be very bad >publicity for human chess. IBM hyped it up so much that the general public >believed that computers were now better than the best humans. > >In addition to that, the match was unfair. IBM didn't cheat (at least not that >anyone has proven), but they bent every rule in their favor. > >So basically the public was decieved by IBM in the name of money. That was a >"blow" to the human chess community. > >Russell I think that it may be better for computer chess to see kasparov losing 3.5-2.5 and later win a revenge match convincingly. Maybe it is going to convince part of the people who believe that deeper blue was better than Kasparov that they were wrong and we cannot decide who is better from a 6 game match. Uri
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