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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Re:slashdot == sexist by Waffle+Iron · 2003-10-08 15:03 · Score: 1, Troll

Centuries ago English had a more sensible set of words for human beings: 'woman' for a female, 'wereman' for a male, and 'man' for the general case covering both. We would have avoided a lot of confusion and controversy if the term 'wereman' hadn't been dropped. (A vestige of the word does still survive as part of 'werewolf', but given the scarcity of these creatures, that's not really very useful.)