Author: KarinsDad
Date: 12:35:23 10/19/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 15:17:21, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. I disagree (sorry Dann). You mention, but do not seriously take into account the fact that the World had a lot of resources behind them such as other Grandmasters and computer analysis. It was Kasparov versus the World after all, not Kasparov versus the average of the world. It is a fact that move 51 was ballot stuffed to pick a questionable move and move 58 was voted on without the analysis of the team whose input was more valuable than any other resource. Microsoft messed up more than once and that is a fact. Whether the World would have won or drawn is irrelevant. The only relevant thing that most anyone is going to remember from this game is that MS screwed up and because of that, the outcome of the game was a farce to most people. Unfortunately. KarinsDad :)
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