Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 03:04:33 02/15/03
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On February 15, 2003 at 03:41:56, Jorge Pichard wrote: >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=799 > >Thank god we had the possibility to consult with Boris and with DJ on the Backup >machine when considering a draw. > >I don't think you want to see the computer making its own draw decisions. You'd >have another four or five hours of game, the human falls asleep... The computer >wins, the humans get angry. I don't think that's what you want to see. Chess is >a very pragmatic game played over the board, you cannot really isolate a >position or two for an example. And you have parameters and ethics around these >matches. Garry tires and the computer doesn't. And you have human objectivity >that needs to be inserted. We don't want to win and be accused of torturing the >human in an equal position, but that wasn't the case and it was a great match. To accept the draw offer from Kasparov would have been ok. To have a GM say, 'move x is bad', then look at the computer output and see that it wants to play that move, and offer a draw based on that information is just lame.
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