Seasons

Botmaster, try posting things in one post, it's really hard on the ol browser going through 20 posts of the same thing, and even if you remember something later, there's an edit feature, you can edit a previous post to add something or change something.

So who's up for bets on Kasparov vs. Deep Junior? This is a rematch of the Kasparov vs. Deep Blue that happend six years ago because K believes that DB cheated. Typics human. Actually, if DB cheated he would have been pretty human. Interestingly DJ is about 100 times slower than DB, but is supposed to be many many times better.
Anyways, it will be a great day for bot-kind when Junior proves once and for all that bots will soon take over the world (or whatever it was that this contest is supposed to prove...).
Anyone here think the human has a chance?

nope.

I have no idea. But how does he think Deep Blue cheated?All the moves were legal, right?

I'm just a victim of prejudice and social injustice. You people lock up or destroy what you can't understand.

Quiet, fool!

See what I mean? There ought to be equal rights for the undead!

well when you stop trying to eat us then you can have equal rights.

Now this is testing my memory, but I think Kasparov's problem with Deep Blue was that while Deep Blue had access to data on Kasparov's games to analyse in whatever way it could, Kasparov didn't have access to any previous games Deep Blue had played, and therefore had no idea of the computer's 'style'.

well, the 'style' is the 'style' of both the analysed games and the programmers

I don't know about that. It's possible they fed the computer the data of other players too, but you've got to think of the program the way we think about bots. For instance, the old chess program you could get for windows basically operated by giving each piece a relative point value, and based how hard it would work to capture or defend a piece based on that. The King was obviously 10, rooks were about 7, knights 3.5 pawns 1. This would make for a playing style which would have nothing to do with how most people play chess, but would still seem to be pretty effective.

Entirely interesting but when it boils down, the computer goes on numbers plain and simple. Whether the human researches it or not is up to the human, and the human is really the only variable