Author: Omid David
Date: 02:41:17 08/14/02
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On August 14, 2002 at 00:31:41, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Yes, only a good win by Kasparov, will bring back the chess as an ongoing challenge to humans, in the public's view.
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