Author: stuart taylor
Date: 14:24:27 11/05/03
Why can't the real interests and passions of the chess (computer) world be given more consideration, in having Kasparov play something which has already been top for some time, and is clearly reported to be stronger at next release, such as Shredder? Kasparov already played fritz recently (or was it Kramnik? same thing really) and both Fritz and Junior achieved the disgusting result (for their rivals) of a draw each in matches against the two top humans. Why do we need more of that now? All we want to see now is that Kasparov is ripped to shreds from software, and that will make us completely sure that computers are better from then on, and then we won't need any more such matches. So in order to achieve this, wouldn't it be better to have the best possible program against him? Do we have to waste another few years to see what we want to see? Isn't it public inconvenience? If now he either draws again, or wins by half a point, wouldn't it be more meaningful (showing that Kasparov is not beatable by a machine quite yet) if the program he plays against is as much as possible stronger (and different) from the last programs which Kasparov and Kamnik drew with? S.Taylor
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