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Brain vs. Computer: Place Your Bets

Posted by timothy on from the 20-on-the-computer dept.

dev_null_ziggy writes: "CNN reports that the current chess guru is going up against a supercomputer, amusingly titled 'Deep Fritz.' The match is scheduled for October, and the current champion, Vladimir Kramnik, stands to win $1 Million dollars if he wins. Of course, since he'll be snagging $800k for a draw, and $600k for a loss ... I'll give two to one odds on the machine."

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  1. Re:Sidenotes to the Deep Blue - Kasparov Match by Skuto · · Score: 0, Troll

    The same uninformed nonsense again.

    >Deep Blue wasn't a very good chess program,
    >compared to other programs like Fritz, however it
    >had a lot of power

    Do you have any EVIDENCE that Fritz is a better
    chessprogram than Deep Blue, speed not included?

    (You don't, because it's false. Also Deep Blue
    made specific tradeoffs based on its speed. And
    they could include all the knowledge they wanted
    without a speed penalty because they had hardware
    to play with. Fritz can't do that, and hence
    it has to make compromises and stay dumber)

    >And it had something else, it was designed
    >completely to counter Kasparov's style, against
    >any other opponent it would have played much
    >weaker.

    Do you have any EVIDENCE to support that?
    Kasparov claimed this, but there is no reason
    to believe it's true. He claimed a human made
    several of the moves in the games as well.

    --
    GCP