Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 02:52:42 02/09/03
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On February 08, 2003 at 23:26:05, Michael Cummings wrote: >To clarify, if you saw two GM's or any players for that matter at the same >position as Kasparov and DJ were at. How many would have agree'd to a draw? > >I have been looking through my database of chess games for draws, and I have yet >been able to find one that agreed to a draw being 1 pawn and a queen each down. > >Maybe someone else can find a game in which this has happened. drawing a game >with 98% of the pieces still in play? I had imagined three stages to the dominance of computers over humans at chess: first the machines would demonstrate that they can beat the best human players, then the humans would raise their game in response to the challenge, and finally the machines would prevail. It also seemed to me that the very best would at last a have a worthy opponent (that always got better) to stimulate their further develop. I would have hoped that GK having dominated chess for so long (and so easily after Karpov's decline) would have risen to the new challenge. But it seems with him representing mankind, we are likely to go out with a whimper. In his defense, he is forty_ish, so I guess lacks the fight he once had to be the best and maintain it. Frank
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