Men vs. Machines

FFriedel writes "In October classical chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik is scheduled to play Deep Fritz in Bahrain. Now Garry Kasparov, who lost his title to Kramnik in 2000, but is still ranked as the strongest player in the world, has announced that he will play the computer chess world champion Deep Junior in Jerusalem at almost exactly the same time. Both programs are distributed by ChessBase. In 1997 Kasparov lost his famous match against Deep Blue."

Comments

Deep, man.

[RasputinAXP]

What's with the "Deep" designation? Are the programmers for the chess projects all aging hippies?

"Kasparov would move Qe4 here, man."

"Whoa, deep blue, man."

"Hey guys, we need a name...for...hey!"

And thus it's perpetuated.

Re:Deep, man.

[Chai_Bot]

I wonder has anyone used the name 'shallow hal' for a chessplaying program/machine?

Re:What's the point?

[Anonymous Coward]

Human chess players never learn about their opponent's behaviors beforehand?

If you know the computer will know how you will play, you should play in a different way. But the computer will obviously know you will know it knows how you play, and thus expect this. As a result, you should alter your strategy back to your original. The computer will also realize you will do this though, so you should again try to alter your playing manner.

Man-Canine World Championship

[Ridge]

In a related note, tomorrow I'll be playing Deep Poo for the Man-Canine World Championship.

Although I am unranked, I'm not overly nervous as my dog Poo licks her butt. Unfortunately, our last match ended in a draw when Poo decided that my queen looked mighty tasty. Luckily, I was able to recover said queen from Poo's poo in the neighbor's yard. I hosed it down pretty well and we should be able to begin anew tomorrow.

Re:For the chess nuts

[caferace]

That's true. I know a bunch of engineers that would be hard pressed to match the turing test.

Some of them are pretty good at chess though.

Kasparov's Secret Weapon

[guttentag]

Rumor has it Kasparov's secret weapon this time around is a bucket of salt water -- with which he will drench both himself and his opponent so no one can accuse him of not playing fairly.

If that fails, he plans to challenge his opponent to a "Double or Nothing" drinking contest at a local bar.

Eh, kinda...

[Jayde Stargunner]

Only if the human really doesn't talk about anything in particular, and expects a meaningful response. ALICE cannot give meaningful responces.

ALICE would probably make a good CEO, rather than a conversation tool.

CEOBot: What would you like to know?
Interviewer: What were your profits this year?
CEOBot: What would you like to know about our profits this year?
Interviewer: How much were they?
CEOBot: How much do you think they were?
Interviewer: Well, you claimed 22billion.
CEOBot: I'm afraid I really don't know anything about that. Would you like me to sing you a song?

-Jayde