Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 09:10:26 05/02/99
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On May 01, 1999 at 22:33:58, James Robertson wrote: >On May 01, 1999 at 19:29:38, odell hall wrote: > >> >>>This is the same person who accuses IBM of fraud. Just because he is a world >>>champion doesn't mean that all of his opinions are correct. (Fischer, anyone?) >>> >> >>I don't think anyone ever claimed that all of his opinions were correct. But I >>think even his enemies would admitt that on matters of chess he is the premier >>authority! Then on subjects of Politics or philosophy I would listen to kaspy >>with a grain of salt but when it comes to chess , surely his opinion should be >>taken seriously certainly above a 2500 AND BELOW CHESS PLAYER. > >I am not disagreeing with you, but he claimed that DB had cheated, saying "No >computer could play a move like Be4", which certainly sounds like he is talking >about chess. Because of his comments (he is after all the premier authority) do >you believe that DB had to have cheated? > >James I am disagreeing with him. :) On matters of computer chess, he is FAR from an authority. The developers of computer chess software (and hardware :) are the experts when it comes to this debate. What I think is really cool about it is we have just seen Deep Blue pass a limited Turing Test. The best player in the world thinks that it cheated, it had to be a human playing some of those moves! Dave
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