Author: James Robertson
Date: 14:14:33 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? Au contraire. :) The readers of the "Ural worker" played two games with Spassky and drew one. Us masses are not as stupid as you think. :) James > >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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