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Subject: Re: A Blast from the present.

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 11:45:29 04/25/05

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On April 24, 2005 at 23:36:41, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On April 24, 2005 at 19:52:16, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
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>>On April 24, 2005 at 19:43:45, Matthew Hull wrote:
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>>>On April 24, 2005 at 11:42:17, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
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>>>>On April 24, 2005 at 11:26:32, chandler yergin wrote:
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>>>>>On April 24, 2005 at 10:13:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On April 24, 2005 at 05:14:48, Peter Berger wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On April 23, 2005 at 23:52:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Several of us have looked at the logs for the games, and game 2 looked perfectly
>>>>>>>>normal and the program even reported a fail low and "panic time" where it
>>>>>>>>searched longer than normal because of the fail low.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>This is a red herring and crap.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>When was the first time someone independent had a look at these logfiles? Have
>>>>>>>you and the several others had a chance to look at the logfiles right after the
>>>>>>>games took place, say May 1997?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The logfiles IBM published eventually mean nothing at all. This was more than a
>>>>>>>year after the games, wasn't it? Even I could produce most impressive logfiles
>>>>>>>given that much time ..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yes.  Several looked at the log right after the event.  I believe that Ken sent
>>>>>>me the section from the game although I don't remember whether it was the Qxb6
>>>>>>(not played) or the Be4 position.  I believe that Amir posted something about
>>>>>>the position early, but his comments were based on either not understanding what
>>>>>>DB's log output meant, or something else.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This was about the "fail low (panic time)" that caused DB to search much longer
>>>>>>than normal and may have been on the Be4 move although I simply don't remember
>>>>>>much about it since it was not a particularly significant event in my mind
>>>>>>because at the time I posted an excerpt from a Crafty log that looked
>>>>>>_identical_ in concept.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Nothing ever looked strange about the log stuff to me...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Kasparov never saw them did he?
>>>>>
>>>>> He was the one that requested them.
>>>>>
>>>>>He was the one under pressure.
>>>>>
>>>>>Review by third parties 'after the fact',
>>>>>
>>>>>way after the fact, do not excuse what happened.
>>>>>
>>>>>I doubt if any Grandmaster, then or now, would go into a Match
>>>>>
>>>>>against 'any' Opponent blind, or accept the Match conditions Kasparov did.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Kasparov was seriously believing that this was a science clarification but when
>>>>the scientists behaved like known crooks in sports he was completely losing his
>>>>motivation to play decent chess. That is the crucial point. The position of Bob
>>>>Hyatt is absolutely ok if you forget about the usually good relationship the
>>>>team around Hsu had towards Kasparov. But if you dont forget that then you begin
>>>>to realise what a fishy job they had played vs Kasparov who formerly was their
>>>>buddy. Psychologically that is trivial. At first you woo somebody and when you
>>>>won him, then you can play dirty and the guy is completely lost, most of all
>>>>because of his perception that he could be so blind and to be so naive.
>>>
>>>
>>>GK was beaten in a match by DeepBlue II.  It was a portent.  Now, on ICC, you
>>>can watch GMs getting smashed, thrashed, pumelled, flogged and slaughtered, all
>>>day and night long.  They win a few games here and there and get evicerated the
>>>rest of the time.
>>>
>>>All whining defenders of human chess superiority need to grow up.  Humans aren't
>>>as consistently good as computers anymore.  Humans are toast in chess, now.
>>
>>
>>In Blitz and Rapid, yes.
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>Post where a GM prevails in a match of any length at long time controls.

THere ARE no long-term matches between machine and humans on ICC, my friend.


>If you
>can't, then your position is unscientific.

Funny if simply there are no such "long" game matches.



>
>You blather all day about DB logs and "cheating science", yet you can't produce
>the score or log of any match showing GM domination of current chess software.
>You would "cheat science" with your unfounded assertions.

You shouldn't misuse your native language against a foreigner. Period.



>
>In reality, we see GMs taking their beatings on chess servers, tournaments games
>with long time controls, and in matches as old as two years ago.  Your position
>has no data points.  My position has many.
>
>Now we see that yours is a position of no scientist but of a religionist
>instead.

The question is what you have to say in the debate here. Please go into your
religious debates in CTF. Thank you.



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>>>>>Grandmasters prepare a dossier against their opponents and study them for
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>>>>>months before a match. The Deep Blue team would not let Garry have access to
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>>>>>even a glimpse of the Prematch training games of Deep Blue.
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>>>>>With good reason of course; they knew that the Computer could not beat him fair
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>>>>> and square.



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