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Subject: Re: A response to Karpov via Fernando

Author: Robert Hollay

Date: 02:05:38 10/06/05

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On October 06, 2005 at 02:45:37, William Sorin wrote:

>
> It's hard to believe the above jibberish is out of the mouth of a Former World
>Chess Champion. The first question I asked after reading his opinion of computer
>chess is what planet does the former world champion live on? Does he atleast
>follow Major chess events? The two matches between top rated Kasparov and
>Kramnick vs Deep fritz and Deep Junior, should be enough to convince any
>reasonable person that Computer Chess Software is much more then a toy. If that
>isn't enough what about the Adams vs Hydra match. Could it be that Karpov is
>unaware of these matches and the many others, or is he simply just refusing to
>see the facts, like many who become emotionally involved in the question of
>Computer chess strength. Looking through my database i don't find many games
>Karpov has played against Programs but the few I find shows that Karpov only
>managed a draw against Shredder6 running on Modest Hardware (pent 600). You
>would think based on his comments that Karpov has beaten the programs everytime.

 Oh, yes, I can beat Fruit 2.2 whenever I want, just don't want to waste my
precious time for it because it's only a toy ;)
 It would be interesting to see a Karpov - Fruit2.2 match and learn how
Mr.Karpov "crushes" that toy.

Robert



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