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Man Vs Machine In Chess - Who Is Winning?
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."
Anyone else think that once machines take over the Earth, all they will do is play chess against eachother?
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Like when a player scores a touchdown? Or do the programmers wheel it around in circle chanting it's name? You gotta let them have a little fun. Better then making them mad and having them go Terminator on us.
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Oh, yes indeed. Because emotion is such an important part of playing chess.
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Oh no you din't!
You know, when I hear you say (re Kaparov):...."He's not just looking to beat you in his first match; he's looking to utterly destroy, smash and humiliate you with a dramatic and embarrassing win."...then I realise that we inhabit utterly different worlds. I could certainly be destroyed, smashed and humiliated if a drunken Hell's Angel knocked me out with a pool cue and strung me up from a streetlight by my underpants, but just because some other guy moved a few wooden pieces to better places than I did ? Naaaah.
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That's why there's a higher incidence of retardation in males.
Bordering on 100% upon last observation.
There was a program called "Chesster" which kibitzed like that. Much more amusingly, back in the 80's, the builders of the Belle chess computer interfaced an industrial robot to it to let the computer move actual pieces on a real chessboard. The robot was something they had around the lab for some other project, and it had very powerful motors (it was designed for automobile assembly or something like that). They had to carefully program the robot to pick up the chess pieces gently and put them down without slamming them through the table. Unfortunately, due to a software bug, the story goes, the robot would sometimes lift a captured piece and crush it into powder. I would imagine that to be a scarier put-down than any silly heckling coming out of a console terminal or speech synthesizer.
Jeez. And I thought only skinny nerds played chess... but this Kasparov dude is not only ace chess player, but very strong too? What's he doing with the 'puter then? Smashing it to pieces with a well-placed sucker punch? I'd like to see him duke it out with Arnold!
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