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Kasparov Beats the World

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the white-knight-is-talking-backwards dept.

Ender_Stonebender writes "I noticed on a link to a story about the World Chess Team resigning the game against Kasparov last night. "

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  1. Really? by Daniel · · Score: 3

    NPR reported this morning that while the advising team had voted to resign, the rest of the players voted to continue to the bitter end.

    Daniel

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  2. Triumph of the Computers! by Gromer · · Score: 3

    Let's see... I'm thinking back to the media coverage of the Deep Blue fiasco. By the kind of thinking so much in evidence at the time, Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess, ergo Deep Blue is smarter than Kasparov (witness the outbreak of "will computers replace humans?" panic stories).

    By similar reasoning, and based on the fact that Kasparov beat the entire world at chess, it is not difficult to show that Deep Blue is smarter than the entire world put together. Perhaps Deep Blue ought to be renamed Deep Thought.

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  3. I resigned along time ago... by wilkinsm · · Score: 3

    ...when it was clear that we had lost. This was only a formality. There were many that wanted to play Gary to checkmate, but in a true professional match, one resigns immediately when ones defeat is assured (or at least very strongly suspected.)

    I think that with all that we have learned, and with a few minor rule/organizational changes, we could possibly beat him, or at least draw.

    In fact, this game should have been a draw - it was only due to technical problems that we lost.

    This was much more instructional than his match against deep blue, because the slow speed of play helped to give us time to study chess theory in depth.

    I for one learned a thing or two...

  4. We put up a good fight by crispy · · Score: 3

    Thanks to Irina Krush. She will take away Garry's title someday. We need to commend her on her efforts she put a ton of work into the game! She contributed months and months of painstaking, in-depth analysis. Thanks, Irina!

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    I think I lost my work ethic while surfing the web. If you find it, please email it to crispy@crotch.caltech.edu.
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  5. this would be interesting by Haven · · Score: 3

    how about kasparov vs. every computer in the world? We can do a seti@home type of thing where computers user their idle time to come up w/ checkmate. That would have been more interesting

  6. For people who are interested... by Krilomir · · Score: 4

    The game can be seen here.

  7. Microsoft vs IBM by Hobbex · · Score: 4


    I find it strangely telling that when IBM set out to defeat Kasparov, they did so by building the fastest computer that ever played chess, and succeeded, while Micrsoft set out to do so with a lot of hype, media attention, and flashy web pages, and lost...

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  8. Kasparov's Endgame Analysis by Raereth · · Score: 5

    After The World resigned, Kasparov announced a 25-move forced mate after move 62 (read: the world would've lost on or before move 87, no matter what it did). You can see the page here, and it has a bit of commentary with Kasparov's analysis.