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."

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Humans will hold off the machines for a long time,

[tamnir]

in the game of go.

For a computer, playing chess is just crunching numbers. Thanks to Moore's law, the top chess players will soon consistently fall to the machines.

However this is not the case with the game of go. First the search space is much bigger. This should hold off the machines for a while. But most importantly, we haven't found a good evaluation function. This function is what the game engine uses to choose the "best" move among the ones it evaluates. So without a good evaluation function, no matter how many billion moves the machine can evaluate per second: it will have no idea which one to choose.

Kasparov is a fake

[HanzoSan]

I think alot of his matches are PreArranged and scripted, its a nice show but its fake.

The deep junior is a good example.

Its FAKE!

[HanzoSan]

All of Gary Kasparovs games are fake pre arranged shows.

I play Chess, I know how this game works, and I can spot a scripted game.

This is a game where every single move is part of a script from beginning to the end. The computer plays by the script because thats all it knows how to do, Gary played by the script because he was too much of a coward to break it.

When two people play by the script, its a draw. On the Grandmaster level games are usually a draw because the openings can be 40 moves long and then you have the midgame where both players know all the best moves, everythings just scripted.

Its a show, but its not real chess. Play Fischer Random at least then its impossible to play a scripted match against the computer to save face.

It was fake but it was the computer.

[HanzoSan]

The game was scripted from beginning to end, each match.
Like pro wrestling.