Humans Hold Off the Machines... For Now

Murr writes "The six game match between Gary Kasparov and the Deep Junior program ended in a draw today. Kasparov won game 1 and lost game 3 to a blunder, while the other 4 games were drawn. While the quality of play was not outstanding, after the recent matches of Kramnik and Kasparov against commercial programs running on (high end) commodity hardware, it's becoming apparent that chess programs are getting quite competitive with top human players."

Comments

The games were FAKED

[HanzoSan]

If you know how chess works, when two people both go exactly by the book, it produces a draw.

Gary Kasparov had no chance in hell at playing against deep junior in a game of REAL chess without using scripted or planned moves because then he'd lose, the computer has superior logic.

On the highest level all the games are fake, the players all follow script, they use computers to figure out the best moves then they play for show, move by move going based on the script.

If you think I'm joking or I'm lying, Bobby Fischer the Chess Legend who Abandoned chess explains this.

I'm not a grandmaster but he is, I can understand what hes talking about.

http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer/
http://www.ishipress.com/bobby.htm

Check out his latest interview.