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Subject: Re: Computer - WorldChampion: which result would satisfy everybody here?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 21:19:40 10/24/02

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On October 24, 2002 at 21:18:52, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On October 24, 2002 at 17:33:05, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On October 24, 2002 at 09:12:50, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>On October 24, 2002 at 08:05:41, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>I mean which result would be DEFINITE/FINAL/LAST etc. indicator, that computer
>>>>is better than best human in chess.
>>>>10-0? 20-0? 40-0? And may be human mated in under 30 moves in each game? Should
>>>>be quite clear then for most, if not for all.
>>>>
>>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>Why do you ask? No human world champion calibre player has ever lost 10-0, or
>>>even come close to losing 10-0, much less 20-0 or 40-0, so what's the point of
>>>even asking?
>>
>>umm, you are young my friend :-)
>>too young to remember the candidate's matches which the one and only bobby
>>played and won 6-0, against players who were also "candidates", meaning world
>>champion calibre players.
>
>Just a short correction without entering the thread. You are making the same
>mistake, Ingo Althöfer made. You identify label and real content. Larsen or
>Taimanov never were "world champion calibre". And then it's a well known fact
>that if you want to win you could run into desaster. I'm sure they could have
>drawn a few games. But they wanted to Win. Petrosian was the only "calibre" of
>the three opponents of Fischer.
>
>Rolf Tueschen
>
>
>>
>>aloha
>>  martin

Is this Ingo Althöfer a deamon out of Hell?  Or what?

Bob D.



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