Man Vs Machine In Chess - Who Is Winning?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday October 8, 2003 @02:35PM 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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still by toddhunter · 2003-10-08 14:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

I consider it's still humans competing with other humans playing chess. On one hand we have a chess-master using all the power of his brain, on the other some computer people using a high-powered computer.
When a computer can learn to play chess by itself and then beat the top players, then we have something to look at.