Isn't mathematics part of metaphysics? We live in an n-dimensional universe, but we're not even sure of the value of n.
Not disagreeing, but noting that (as misguided as the anti-scientists may be) science is not outside of metaphysics.
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The Philadelphia UHF station WPHL gave us a daily dose of Ultraman in the early 70's....
Do Wee Willie Webber fans remember the early 8th Man episodes in which the detective hero would go into android "Tobor" mode by smoking a cigarette?
He did that to maximize the number of moves that computer would have to compute to capture his king. Think about it, the possibilities are endless.
Actually, he did that for concrete strategic reasons--because of the pawn formation, the White King was much safer wandering on the "naked" Queenside than it would've been after Kingside castling.
Deep Fritz is more sophisticated software than Deep Blue. When a brute force search is taken to a sufficient depth, the machine will by & large play a reasonable positional game. Deep Fritz is accomplishing more or less the same thing with a slower machine & "smart" pruning of the tree of variations.
Brute force has its limits, however. In all three games, Kramnik has taken advantage of Deep Fritz's inability to make general long-range plans (e.g., identifying a pawn structure weakness and planning to exploit it in the endgame by exchanging every piece except the one best suited to wreaking havoc). The draw in game 1 was perhaps the most striking example of this: Kramnik sacrificed a pawn to create a fortress draw.
A computer may be able to consistently beat the World Champion in the near future, but the top humans will still be able to win a significant share of games against computers until programmers do a better job of programming "fuzzy" thinking.
Whoever prepared the opening book for Deep Fritz did a lousy job: the Berlin Defense, Queen's Gambit Accepted, and the 5.Nxc6 line of the Scotch _all_ play into Kramnik's strength and the general strategic weakness of computer programs.
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Isn't mathematics part of metaphysics? We live in an n-dimensional universe, but we're not even sure of the value of n.
Not disagreeing, but noting that (as misguided as the anti-scientists may be) science is not outside of metaphysics.
The Philadelphia UHF station WPHL gave us a daily dose of Ultraman in the early 70's.... Do Wee Willie Webber fans remember the early 8th Man episodes in which the detective hero would go into android "Tobor" mode by smoking a cigarette?
He did that to maximize the number of moves that computer would have to compute to capture his king. Think about it, the possibilities are endless.
Actually, he did that for concrete strategic reasons--because of the pawn formation, the White King was much safer wandering on the "naked" Queenside than it would've been after Kingside castling.
Brute force has its limits, however. In all three games, Kramnik has taken advantage of Deep Fritz's inability to make general long-range plans (e.g., identifying a pawn structure weakness and planning to exploit it in the endgame by exchanging every piece except the one best suited to wreaking havoc). The draw in game 1 was perhaps the most striking example of this: Kramnik sacrificed a pawn to create a fortress draw.
A computer may be able to consistently beat the World Champion in the near future, but the top humans will still be able to win a significant share of games against computers until programmers do a better job of programming "fuzzy" thinking.
Whoever prepared the opening book for Deep Fritz did a lousy job: the Berlin Defense, Queen's Gambit Accepted, and the 5.Nxc6 line of the Scotch _all_ play into Kramnik's strength and the general strategic weakness of computer programs.