Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:17:21 10/19/99
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Time to play Mr. wet blanket: The 'Joe verses the world' is an old parlor trick. If it were really played straight up (each person giving his/her real opinion), I suspect Kasparov would have won by move 20. ;-) If you take even a really good player, and let a million average players vote on what they want to do, the good player will win. Isn't that obvious? Now, if you have some experts give advice, will the average players even understand it? Chances are, the simplest alternative will be the one that is understood and chosen by 'the masses' if they read the analysis. Yet this move may not be the best. This match turned out differently than I thought because there was more effort by good players and computer analysis provided, etc. However, there could be little doubt of the outcome even from the very beginning if it were really played as a vote of the people verses the world champion. If Kasparov had lost, I would have been highly suspicious of cheating -- yet I don't know anything that would have a chance to do it, unless Deep Blue and Anand joined forces behind the scenes or something else absurd like that.
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