Author: leonid
Date: 15:04:17 01/22/00
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On January 21, 2000 at 12:10:49, Pete R. wrote: >On January 20, 2000 at 17:39:18, walter irvin wrote: > >>where will the next great chess machine come from ?? the next machine to defeat >>a current world champion under tourn conditions .will it be a PC program or >>another super computer ?? > >It can only be a PC program, only because Kasparov will refuse to play a >supercomputer. He has thrown in the towel on the ultimate man vs. machine >contest. I don't think anyone doubts now that a machine *can* be built that will >defeat any human player, so why bother anyway? IMO he blew his last chance to >get paid a lot of money to face a machine. The remaining challenge will be for >PC programs, and that will happen by a slow creep and not a challenge match, >because Kasparov works with these programs all the time, and he will know as >soon as anyone when they are getting to his level. When he knows they are >capable of beating him he won't play a match, so it will just sort of become >acknowledged at some point that computers are too strong for humans. Very witty post! Leonid.
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