Author: odell hall
Date: 01:41:48 11/11/98
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On November 11, 1998 at 02:25:49, Prakash Das wrote: >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). Sorry friend but I beg to differ with you it was not courage that brought garry kasparov to play deepblue but arrogance and greed. Garry thought that he could make a few million without effort. He had a historical contempt for computers. If you had seen the press conference before the match you will agree. Gary was very cocky, talking like it would be a piece of cake to win. Unfortunately he was wrong and deepblue tore him a new asshole! > > 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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