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Man Vs Machine In Chess - Who Is Winning?

Posted by simoniker on from the autobot-or-decepticon? dept.

FFriedel writes "In a few weeks, the world's strongest player Garry Kasparov will take on X3D Fritz in a high-profile man-machine chess match. Who is the statistical favourite? Since computers have been steadily improving and are now holding their own against the very strongest human players, one would think it may be Fritz. Not necessarily, says statistician Jeff Sonas, who doesn't believe computers will inevitably surpass the top humans, and presents empirical evidence to support his claim as part of a series of articles for ChessBase."

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  1. Re:Face reality by veritron · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The reason for this is that women have two X chromosomes. So they have redundant copies of all their genes - which reduces the frequency of DNA wonkiness. Y-chromosomes are shorter than X-chromosomes, so in all males, there's a whole section of DNA that won't "match up" with the other side. That's why there's a higher incidence of retardation in males.

  2. Re:What will they do when we're gone? by Sivaram_Velauthapill · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You mean US imperialism will be replaced with XReR-74 imperialism?

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  3. I for one... by kerb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...warmfully welcome our computer chess overlords