Author: Prakash Das
Date: 17:37:31 05/03/99
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On May 02, 1999 at 12:10:26, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Uhh.. how? DB team had access to GMs during the progress of the game. Also, the computer crashed a few times during play and rebooted. Which raises suspicions of changes inflicted on it by humans before/after. Kasparov knows quite a lot, he is not your usual Salov mouthing off, or Judit Polgar demanding huge appearance fees even though she is not that good (thrashed by Fritz) Limited turing test.. uh. That's why I stopped posting to internet.
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