Not a bad deal for Kasparov. $150K if he loses, $200K if he wins, and $175K for a draw. I wonder if X3D Fritz gets anything besides personal satisfaction (Twilight Zone music please).
I think the computer will win.
Who makes Fritz? and who helped developing his “AI” routines?
Is it like Deep Blue?
Hi,
I’m a sucker for these kinds of things, so naturally I follow the games.
First match wasn’t that exciting, we’ll have to see what happens tomorrow.
My bet is for 2 - 2.
I like the parallel to the Matrix movies as the game is played in VR and not on a board.
Hey Zub,
Fritz, is a comersial available chess program with X3D technology developed by Frans Morsch. Check it out on
www.chessbase.com where you also can follow the games.
BTW, did you win the analog whistle amplifier on ebay.de?
Cheers!
/MarcusR
Draw, unless K makes a mistake.
Wow! Great link! Thanks, Marcus. Some OT threads rock, too…
Naah… 
But I’m looking for a lamp pre-amp for the whistle mike I’d like to set up.
Maybe one of these headphones amps available in Germany, from TAC or somthing of the kind?
I wonder how he would do against GNUchess. X-board keeps kicking my @$$ 
Poor Kasparove. He needs to win something, he hasn’t won in so long.
I keep wondering if it bothers Kasparov to just have the chess board floating there in front of him without having to do anything tactile to make the moves. He sure blundered today. I felt sorry for him.
that’s a tough one. the software nowadays is pretty thorough.
i’m hoping for Kasp but wouldn’t place any money(or whistles) on it.
(Does mentioning whistles make this post now ON topic???) :roll:
bob
I don’t follow chess much, and I actually hate playing the game, but this interests me. I wonder, how can a computer outplay a human, when the fastest computer ever built has been measured to be about as intelligent as an insect? And shouldn’t a human be smarter than a computer, because computers were made by humans? Is it that humans are bogged down by emotion, while a computer can stick to pure logic? Really makes one think.
The main advantage of a computer is speed. In a chess game, it can think ahead more moves than a human can (in the same length of time).
Chess is a very finite game when one considers the most logical course or move(s) in a game. The computer can easily run down many ‘logical’ scenarios and go deeper ply than a human. So, the gap was narrowed when Kasparov lost to Big Blue. Of course, grandmasters were helping to program it and this computer to do its thing correctly!
By the way, I read once that by the time one gets to be a Grandmaster, they can roughly deal instantly (or recognize) 10,000 chess positions.