Author: Will Singleton
Date: 19:06:50 05/03/99
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On May 03, 1999 at 20:37:31, Prakash Das wrote: >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. Thanks for your insight, uh. Will
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