Kasparov

the Robot Vegetable veg at teleport.com
Mon May 12 15:23:46 CDT 1997


  Not that Kasparov was
beaten, after all, you probably couldn't get a 100 meter dash record
holder to race a car, for example, but that GK accused the machine of
cheating and wanted a printout... 

	Kasparov was beaten, not due to events, but because that
is the contest he has set up.  He did not say, "I am racing a car,
and so there is really no contest."   He said:

	"We should see if this machine is a prodigy or if it was
a lot of human weaknesses in a single event.  I have no idea what's
happening here, but I don't think the machine is unbeatable.  In
real competitive chess, it will be a different story."

	I think the key heree is the "I have no idea" part.

	veg




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