Author: James T. Walker
Date: 03:31:57 02/15/03
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On February 15, 2003 at 06:04:33, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >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. I agree with you but it's a 2 sided coin. Kasparov did not have to accept the draw offer by the Junior team.
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