Kramnik Ties Fritz; Machines Not Yet Our Masters

Maltov writes "World Chess Champion V. Kramnik ties his match against the software Fritz. Details here. You can also check out a picture gallery and a short history of computer chess."

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Re:We can at best hope a tie..

[GigsVT]

What is this effect? "Post about 'Go' in a chess thread for +5 syndrome?" It's funny that this exact same message, more or less, has made +5 in the last 4 or 5 chess stories.

Mod the parent up!

[still_sick]

I couldn't agree with you more.

I still recall one comment posted a while ago along the lines of "If Chess is the thinking man's Checkers, surely Go is the thinking man's Chess.". ???. Ok, dude.

Folks, they're two different animals. The fact that Go contains a massively larger tree and is harder for a computer to play is mostly irrelevant in terms of human players. Both are (for the foreseeable future) too large to even consider calculating. Both trees would contain more nodes than the number of particles in the entire universe.

Imagine it this way. Take two rich people - one has 400 Billion dollars, and one has 500 billion dollars. Clearly the second one is much richer than the first, but that's in no way a slight to the less wealthy person. Both have more money than they'll ever reasonably be able to spend in a hundred years. It would take extraordinary circumstances for the second persons extra hundred billion to be felt at all.