From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 20:58:14 MST
Computer chess fans, the worlds number 8 ranked human,
the commie grandmaster Evgeny Bareev, just concluded
a four game match against the 3rd ranked software
opponent, HiarcsX. All four games were drawn.
The kicker is that the software was run on an ordinary
2.4 GHz computer with no specialty performance equipment,
the 600 dollar Fry's Electronics blue light special.
The Kasparov-Junior match is tied with 3 games
to go. Junior might be considered slightly ahead
in that it gets the white pieces twice in the
remaining 3 games.
We have arrived. The chess software really is
playing out on the far right tail of the bell
curve.
Now if we can only teach the computers to do other
human-like stuff...
spike
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