Author: Prakash Das
Date: 23:25:49 11/10/98
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On November 11, 1998 at 02:10:16, odell hall wrote: > > The part that amused me is when it says that Garry Kasparov has not played >any computer programs since his defeat by deepblue! Wow! and this is the guy >that Patrick Wolf claimed is the Greatest Competitor in the history of the Game >of chess! I guess he no longer feels the urge to defend mankind, having let the >whole human race down in newyork. Garry was the first player courageous enough to take on Deep Blue. How many other players did you see do this? None.. Now that Garry has played DB and produced some games for others to analyze, you see others coming out of the woodwork and saying they can do it. (Karpov too.) To take on an unknown machine like DB without any games to go by, when Garry's games were available for the DB to analyze to death required great courage. If there was money in the process, it's part of the business. All professionals (chess and otherwise do this). Garry is the greatest competitor of all. Nothing has changed. The last match with DB was lost by Garry, not won by IBM. You have never been in Garry's position and the tremendous pressures he puts himself under.. yet you criticize him freely in hindsight. It's easy to pretend to be a Hercules in our armchairs. Garry hates losing and is always emotional about it and various other things. He is just human. Humans are not perfect.
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