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To: canuck_conservative
Maybe one of the chess nuts will remember a specific event. I know that he was exhausted after playing Deep Blue in 1997.

After IBM dropped the Deep Blue project, the level of computer chess software has become better, while the level of the hardware on which the software sits has declined. I don't think Kasparov has been tested at that level since, but his behavior shows the effects of playing a brute-force opponent.

The chess playing software is now good enough that even Kasparov cannot make blunders against the computer and expect to win. Therefore, today he played to avoid mistakes, not to win.

Kasparov beating a chess computer is not newsworthy. A computer beating Kasparov still makes the headlines. Would ESPN have broadcast match 6 live if Kasparov was ahead by 2 points, instead of being tied.

6 posted on 02/07/2003 9:02:14 PM PST by texas booster
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To: texas booster
The chess playing software is now good enough that even Kasparov cannot make blunders against the computer and expect to win.

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Try chesmaster 3000 up.

11 posted on 02/07/2003 10:02:45 PM PST by RLK
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