Author: Jeff Lischer
Date: 07:23:33 02/09/03
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On February 09, 2003 at 09:43:06, Graham Laight wrote: >On February 08, 2003 at 20:44:24, stuart taylor wrote: > >>On February 08, 2003 at 19:31:38, Graham Laight wrote: >> >>>On February 08, 2003 at 12:42:42, stuart taylor wrote: >>> >>>>Peace for everyone! Peace for Kramnik, Peace for Kasparov, Peace for DJ and DF. >>>>Peace for all betters and financers! Well, no one can really complain about >>>>peace, can they! >>> >>>Yes. >>> >>>The essence of sport is competition. Not much fun for the spectators if the >>>competitors fail to compete. >>> >>>-g >>> >> >>So the best result in any competition is draw, equality. That's fun! So all >>betters should calibrate and bet on a draw. Spectators should also be a good >>sport. >>I think we have drawn the right (sorry, the middle) conclusion! > >Who's "we"? I guess I'll throw myself into this "we" but maybe my reasoning is different from Stuart's! At first I didn't like the draw in Game 6, but now I'm starting to see it differently. Garry, in his human-ness, can evaluate positions on so many more levels than just a simple evaluation of his posistion: 1) Does he have a slight advantage, with a clear path to victory? 2) Does he have a slight advantage, with no clear path but also no risk from his opponent? 3) Does he have a slight advantage, with at best a long difficult path to victory? I think Garry is perfectly justified in seeing possibility #3 and concluding that offering a draw is the superior option -- especially against tireless computers, but also against humans given the right tournament conditions. He'll get plenty more chances like #1 and #2 where he can show his stuff!! Doesn't it highlight the beauty of humans playing chess that they can think about a game on so many more levels like this?!? --Jeff > >-g > >>S.Taylor
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