Chess has been in the past a measure of mathematics and memory for only computers. Humans approach chess much more abstractly. They see "backward pawns on open files" as easy targets. They will trade Rooks for knights or bishops because it doubles pawns making them easy targets and opens up the king (ala playing black in the Sicilian Dragon).
Deep Junior with its Bxh2 move in I believe what was the 5th game of the match showed what appeared to be this same abstract approach to chess. If Kasparov were to have tried to hang on to the material the computer had not calculated a win for that variation but it saw that it could keep chipping away at the material advantage.
After every ply the evaluation became closer equal but there was no quantitative advantage in that position.
I think that the Israeli team that maintains Junior are really working on AI in conjunction with pure quantitative analysis of the positions.
Do I think that Deep Blue used an AI, no.. Fritz maybe... For chess fans Junior is entertaining to watch which you can't really say about other major programs.
I am a network specialist at a very large public library system in the midwest with nearly 700 public PC's. We have had cases with law enforcement asking us for our proxy logs but have never been asked to actively monitor all PC's. There have been stalking cases, and death threats sent from our PC's and in those cases the only thing that we have been able to tell law enforcement is that they were sent from "this branch".
We definitely do not log peoples traffic nor do we have the storage space to do so. We have a snort box for intrusion detection that does only logging. We had logging enabled for http for a day and we used up all 200gb of space.
Fortran was one of the first programming languages I taught myself in preparation for an engineering contest in High School.
The book that I used to learn this great language is "Fortran 77 Programming w/ An Introduction to the Fortran 90 Standard" by Ellis, Published by Addison Wesley.
I have the second edition of this book and not only is it a great programming book but a great Math book as well teaching such concepts as Data Fitting by least Squares approximation and the Newton-Raphson method for solving non-linear equations. (Using the first derivitive of an equation to approximate a root.)
This book put me well ahead of the people in my calculus classes.
Usually in America where the swiss system of chess is popular the first few rounds of a tournament are uneventful because the top players are playing much weaker opponents and there is no need to "get psyched up for a game". Because of this I expect that testosterone levels are lower in earlier rounds.
In Indiana this weekend we had an invitational tournament where several of the top chess players in the state. Because of this all of the games were between fairly evenly matched opponents. The event was a four round event with 18 players. By round 4, 6 of the 18 players withdrew because of "exhaustion". I imagine this exhaustion could have been caused by the sudden rise and drops in testosterone levels.
I lost a game embarrasingly in round 3 because of the exhaustion of playing two extremely tense games before. Here is that embarrassing loss for those who want to laugh at me.
I'm a class A player that was playing an expert in this round. I obviously was not up for this game because of the preceding round. Maybe this was due to a low testosterone level?
I think we will see 2 wins by Kramnik and the rest will be draws. Kramnik is a very stable and player who doesn't usually sacrifice material or go into complications. Plus Kramnik's endgames are second to none in the world. Kramnik will use the same strategy that he used as black against Kasparov. Which was to go from the opening into the endgame.
This is a huge disadvantage to the computer because they do not play endgames very well without very large table bases.
Kramnik also has the advantage of studying several Deep Fritz games before the match. Kasparov did not have this luxury vs. Deep Blue. If he did have that would have made a big difference. But that isn't the only reason that Kasparov lost that match. He should have adopted a slow positional style similar to Karpov or Kramnik's.
Of course I may be biased towards Kramnik because his favorite first move is 1. Nf3:)
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Chess has been in the past a measure of mathematics and memory for only computers. Humans approach chess much more abstractly. They see "backward pawns on open files" as easy targets. They will trade Rooks for knights or bishops because it doubles pawns making them easy targets and opens up the king (ala playing black in the Sicilian Dragon).
Deep Junior with its Bxh2 move in I believe what was the 5th game of the match showed what appeared to be this same abstract approach to chess. If Kasparov were to have tried to hang on to the material the computer had not calculated a win for that variation but it saw that it could keep chipping away at the material advantage.
After every ply the evaluation became closer equal but there was no quantitative advantage in that position.
I think that the Israeli team that maintains Junior are really working on AI in conjunction with pure quantitative analysis of the positions.
Do I think that Deep Blue used an AI, no.. Fritz maybe... For chess fans Junior is entertaining to watch which you can't really say about other major programs.
I am a network specialist at a very large public library system in the midwest with nearly 700 public PC's. We have had cases with law enforcement asking us for our proxy logs but have never been asked to actively monitor all PC's. There have been stalking cases, and death threats sent from our PC's and in those cases the only thing that we have been able to tell law enforcement is that they were sent from "this branch".
We definitely do not log peoples traffic nor do we have the storage space to do so. We have a snort box for intrusion detection that does only logging. We had logging enabled for http for a day and we used up all 200gb of space.
Fortran was one of the first programming languages I taught myself in preparation for an engineering contest in High School.
The book that I used to learn this great language is "Fortran 77 Programming w/ An Introduction to the Fortran 90 Standard" by Ellis, Published by Addison Wesley.
I have the second edition of this book and not only is it a great programming book but a great Math book as well teaching such concepts as Data Fitting by least Squares approximation and the Newton-Raphson method for solving non-linear equations. (Using the first derivitive of an equation to approximate a root.)
This book put me well ahead of the people in my calculus classes.
Usually in America where the swiss system of chess is popular the first few rounds of a tournament are uneventful because the top players are playing much weaker opponents and there is no need to "get psyched up for a game". Because of this I expect that testosterone levels are lower in earlier rounds.
In Indiana this weekend we had an invitational tournament where several of the top chess players in the state. Because of this all of the games were between fairly evenly matched opponents. The event was a four round event with 18 players. By round 4, 6 of the 18 players withdrew because of "exhaustion". I imagine this exhaustion could have been caused by the sudden rise and drops in testosterone levels.
I lost a game embarrasingly in round 3 because of the exhaustion of playing two extremely tense games before. Here is that embarrassing loss for those who want to laugh at me.
1. e4 d5 2. e5 Bf5 3. d4 e6 4. Nd2 c5 5. c3 Nc6 8. Bb5 Qb6 7. Qa4 cxd4 8.cxd4 Bb4 9. Qxb4 Black Resigns.
I'm a class A player that was playing an expert in this round. I obviously was not up for this game because of the preceding round. Maybe this was due to a low testosterone level?
I think we will see 2 wins by Kramnik and the rest will be draws. Kramnik is a very stable and player who doesn't usually sacrifice material or go into complications. Plus Kramnik's endgames are second to none in the world. Kramnik will use the same strategy that he used as black against Kasparov. Which was to go from the opening into the endgame. This is a huge disadvantage to the computer because they do not play endgames very well without very large table bases. Kramnik also has the advantage of studying several Deep Fritz games before the match. Kasparov did not have this luxury vs. Deep Blue. If he did have that would have made a big difference. But that isn't the only reason that Kasparov lost that match. He should have adopted a slow positional style similar to Karpov or Kramnik's. Of course I may be biased towards Kramnik because his favorite first move is 1. Nf3 :)
My father-in-law used to work at Magnaquench's plant in Anderson. He has a couple of magnets about the size of a dime and a quarter inch thick. I was playing with them one day and pinched my fingers pretty good. They were also good "stud finders" you could hold the magnets a good inch or two away from the wall and let go and as they were falling if there was a nail in the wall it would stick to it.