Linux Chess Supercomputer Overpowers Grandmaster

Capt Bubudiu writes "Deep Blue vs. Kasparov is something most readers will remember but when Deep Blue was retired by IBM, a Dubai company took over with Hydra. In a $150,000 6-game challenge in Wembley UK, the games got off to a humiliation for mankind as Michael Adams, the UK Grandmaster, was mauled in games one and three, drawing game two. Adams is ranked seventh in the world and what ordinary mortals call a 'Super Grandmaster'."

Comments

Re:Beating a supercomputer is easy..

[Anonymous Coward]

The differance between a person and a computer is people can learn. A computer can not.

Poppycock. Learning algorithms of various kinds have been around for years. My email reader has learned the difference between spam and non-spam to pinpoint accuracy. All I had to do was let its bayesian algorithm learn for a while from a corpus of identified spam and ham (non spam).

Though your invocation of a god suggests you're unlikely to be reasonable, I suggest you read up on some actual artificial intelligence research, try the introductory books by Peter Norvig.

Nothing except degree makes any of man's abilities "special". We are just smart apes. In fact, so far, the more we learn about the rest of the natural world and our place in it, the less special we find out we are.

Personally, I'm an atheist. But when I see the wonder of the natural world, I can't help but think that if were gods, it would be the ultimate in idiocy and foolishly unjustified pride to think in the midst of the splendor of the universe, we would merit special attention from them, no matter what some old gay men in dresses say about the matter.

Re:Beating a supercomputer is easy..

[John Seminal]

Though your invocation of a god suggests you're unlikely to be reasonable

You are a bigot. Better lock those doors the next time you drive though a black neighborhood. [saracsm] It is not that they are poor that increases crime, it is because they are black[/sarcasm]

Nothing except degree makes any of man's abilities "special". We are just smart apes.

We are not apes. We are humans. Science is only a bunch of theories. I believe we were created by God. We came from somewhere. What do you believe? The Big Bang? Where did that come from?

Re:OS used is irrelevant

[iPod is UNIX]

I learned early on never to take advice from an Apple user, they just make arguments for Apples current product line adjusting them as Apple changes directions. I'm going to present some of the most mindbaffling arguments from the Apple community that you may check with other sources and find out they are pretty much right on.

Apple products and Apple users arguments:

• The Newton, try to convince the Apple user this never was a very good PDA and by todays standard is totaly "out there", 8" x 5" x 1" inches and about a pound without batteries, for reference a palm is about 5" x 3" x 0.3" and about 0.3 pounds. The newton is still by many Apple users the PDA to have. Now ask the same Apple user why the iPod is much better then a Creative Zen. The Zen is to heavy, by 0.1 pounds.
• The time around 2000 when Apple users where still making arguments for cooperative multitasking which to the rest of the industry was pathetic and laughable. Try finding a Mac user argumenting cooperative multitasking today.
• The early stages of OS X (which really where an open beta), slow kernel, slow UI and not even easy to use. To the Apple users was of course the best thing. In reality it was so bad Apple don't even offer security patches for those machines even though they are just a few years old.
• The G4 cube. A bastardised computer, impossible to use. You needed to stand up to load a cd in the tray (top loaded). You had to turn the computer upside down to connect peripherals (all connectors was at the bottom of the case?!?). It had heat troubles taking down most of them. Of course by the Apple user touted as a marvelous piece of equipment and even today by many Apple users seen as the height of Apple design and innovation.
• The Mac Mini, we haven't seen the last of this yet I'm afraid. Of course by the Mac users seen as the future of Macs. Reality: Apple are in 2005 selling computers with 1.25ghz CPU and 4200RPM drive for $499, this excludes keyboard mouse and monitor and includes not even enough RAM to run the included operating system. If you could buy a similar spec PC (which you can't because there are no that slow) you would get at least keyboard, mouse and monitor. It will probably not take long before a hoard of not very happy Mac mini users put these to rest when they find out you can't even run todays software reasonably on a new computer, and tommorows will be next to impossible. The argument from the Mac crowd is that if you buy a Mac mini to play games you are stupid. Is there any other software for the Mac mini I must be stupid to try running?
• Unix, first let me explain that OS X is not a certified Unix. Unix is a trademark hold by Open Group and Apple is using the trademark without permission. Certified Unixes includes Solaris, True 64 HP-UX and other Big leage names. To an Apple user Unix has always been something weird and strange and generaly bad, the usual "not invented by Apple syndrome". Now the Apple user tells you he has a Unix too and Unix by now is the greatest thing thing sliced bread. A real life story was the Apple user who told me "All modern science is based on Unix", that tells you how much the typical Mac user knows what is under the hood of their computer. They tell you Apple is the largest supplier of Unix world wide. Of course OS X doesn't even remotely classifies as Unix and recent test has shown it is at least 10 times slower then Solaris on simple database serving. This of course gives Unix a bad reputation so you can imagine Open Group being more than upset (they have of course sued Apple over infringement). Real Unixes also has 8-10 years of support contracts, Apple has already retired support for OS X 10.2 after just a few years from release making costly unneeded upgrades nessecary. In short, for Apple users Unix is a