Author: Graham Laight
Date: 08:58:20 02/09/03
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On February 09, 2003 at 10:23:33, Jeff Lischer wrote: >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!! If Kasparov was justified in offering a draw, then the DJ team was not justified in accepting it. Moreover - the fact that the draw offer came from the human operators and not the computer which was supposed to be playing the game is a STINKING SCANDAL. It would be like Kasparov's trainer declaring a draw on his behalf. -g >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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