the news media do not seem to have noticed another milestone
in machines immitating human intelligence has been passed with
the world's second highest ranked chess player (vishy anand) falling
in a match to a computer. you recall world champ kasparov lost to
the ibm mainframe deep blue last summer, but the kicker is this:
the mighty anand lost to a 450 mhz pc, running commercially
available software, rebel ten.
of the 8 game match, 4 games were blitz (game in 5 minutes)
result: silicon 3, carbon 1.
2 games were semiblitz (game in 15 minutes). result: silicon 1, draw 1.
2 games were tournament speed (40 moves in 2 hours). result :carbon 1,
draw 1. final score silicon 4, carbon 2, drawn 2. congrats silicon!
spike