From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 23:42:44 MDT
Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
>
>> Spike wrote: >> Im pumped ...Kramnik vs Deep Fritz starts
>>> Wednesday, 2 October. This should be fun to watch. spike
>
> (sorry about the manual reply, my usual mua is dead)
mua? Is that like, mua hahahahaha?
> ... the scarcity is for
> public good human players vs machine matches since humans tend to be
> either shy about losing, busy, or they tend to want money for them.
Alejandro, you may have hit on something. There are
so few humans that can currently beat the top software,
I can see a real market developing for the game scores
from those few cases where a human does manage to slay
the silicon beast. I could see where ads might start
popping up: "I slew Fritz7 with black under 2hr/40
time controls on a 3.7 GHz Pentium 5. PayPal me 15 cents
and Ill post you the moves."
A new cottage industry is born.
Actually I suspect fewer and fewer top grandmasters
will post their scores against software in the public
domain, for they will realize the inherent value of these
scores and would want to sell them, or at least not
swamp the market with freebies.
spike
ps: the match starts tomorrow. I suspect Kramnik will
win every game. But I hope Fritz makes a good showing.
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