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Kramnik and Deep Fritz Draw, Tied Before Final Game
iskander writes "Man and Machine were content to draw in game 7 of the Brains in Bahrain match. Now it's all down to the final game, in which Kramnik will enjoy the advantage of playing with white. It is worth noting that game 6, in which Kramnik may have resigned too early, was found to be a probable draw with best play, and that Kasparov lost to Deep Blue by tossing a drawable game. However, whereas Kasparov could only excuse himself (unconvincingly) by claiming that Deep Blue had been assisted by a human during play, Kramnik could simply request the adjudication of game 6 on the grounds of infractions committed by Deep Fritz, who is rumored to have heckled Kramnik with its Shakespearean chatter througout the game. :) So, will Dirty Fritz win it all or will Humanity's champion "rise above the chatter" and win back the crown for us? If you think you know, you may want to place a bet or register your opinion on the ChessLines survey soon, because the match ends tomorrow."
I had a hard time following the text of the above post!! I tried to run it through a the grammer and spell checker on Deep Blue but it crashed.
So true, so true. It's not like everyone on Slashdot doesn't already have 50 karma anyway (or "excellent") so there's no point in whoring (or anti-whoring) anyway.
(yeah, this is OT.. mod me down, karma's stupid anyway, which is kind of the entire point of this post)
It's not like everyone on Slashdot doesn't already have 50 karma anyway
... and then it turns to shit. Break it there, rebuild, and start again. It's an eternal process.
My fucking ass. Some of us have been here since the beginning and fersure don't understand "the current system".
FUCK karma. It was a good idea, like communism, and it needs to be overhauled when in practice, like communism, IMO.
Moderation by the masses works for a while
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
At least the computer didn't replay a soundfile of William Shatner doing Shakespeare
Or even worse, ol' WFS doing his rendition of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds..
I have a copy of it, and I don't know anyone who's been able to listen to the whole thing... it's probably the most distracting thing I've ever heard..
I think moderation could work if it was done properly. It's just the slashdot implementation that is shit. And they can't really change it now (well they *could* but I don't see that happening). They could have used a network flow model, or even use pagerank. This is an idea that would work.