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Subject: Re: Deep Junior is better even if it is slower than Deeper Blue !

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:01:36 01/26/03

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On January 26, 2003 at 11:39:02, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On January 26, 2003 at 10:39:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 26, 2003 at 05:30:01, Roger D Davis wrote:
>>
>>>>Unless I have misunderstood the contract, this is a modified version of chess to
>>>>that defined by the standard rules, which nowhere states that because one side
>>>>knows that the game is drawn with perfect play then it shall be declared a draw
>>>>- even if the other side does not know or cannot demonstrate it.
>>>
>>>Presumably then, Kasparov could show up with his own set of tablebases, and
>>>consult them during the match? Maybe he has a particular ending he's weak in. Or
>>>do only Junior's tablebases count?
>>
>>
>>Kasparov can show up with anything he wants, "in his head".  The computer is
>>doing exactly the same.
>
>'Exactly' is exactly the delusion in CC.
>
>Rolf Tueschen

There is no delusion on my part in CC.  There is _great_ delusion in what
a human can (and does) do when playing chess, by "some" of course...




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