Real World Series-The Chess Championship

Subject: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: Peter T.
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 02:03 PM

Zero press coverage, but for chess players this is the World Series they have been waiting for. A real World Series, with the best in the world competing. Kasparov vs. Kramnik (there are some other players one might prefer, but hey). And so far, Kramnik is winning. The tension is mounting.... check it out here. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: Peter T.
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 02:06 PM

try here. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 03:23 PM

Wanted to give this a "Refresh" before it went rocketing off the end of the thread list.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: Peter T.
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:02 PM

I would have thought that folk musicians and chess players would have much in common -- intricate mental patterns, smoky rooms, pale skins -- certainly half the folkies I know are computer software designers, so there must be some connection...
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: Clifton53
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:37 PM

The N.Y.Times is running a brief re-cap of each chess game played by these two, including all the moves and the outcome. I've been finding it in the arts section.

Clifton53

Who loves chess but gets lost around move 20

Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:51 PM

Ohmygawd.......I just realized that I've been misreading this!!! Its CHESS!!! Good Lord, here I was thinking it was about CHEESE...The CHEESE Championships. Boy, do I feel foolish. Man the CHEESE Championship would be incredibly boring to say the very least whereas the CHESS Championship would be.........uh, would be.........er,uh.............well they'd be, uh.............yeah, well.....................

Never mind.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: mousethief
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 05:01 PM

LOL, Spaw.

Alex
O..O
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Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 05:14 PM

Peter, chess and computing wasn't always a good mix. I remember Arthur Koestler explaining at great length why a computer would never match the human brain at chess. It would need to analyse every possible consequence before making its first move, and that would take forever.Obviously he failed to anticipate the rate at which computers would speed up in terms of theoretical movements per second. More important, he failed to see that computers could be programmed to mimic what we humans mastered long-since: fuzzy logic.

Thanks for the links. I thought computers had exhausted the game by now. They've certainly knocked the postal game on the head.

Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: Peter T.
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 05:16 PM

Do you have any Wensleydale?... Double Gloucester?... Emmental....? Danish Blue....?etc....? Yes, exciting.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 05:16 PM

Peter, chess and computing weren't always a good mix. I remember Arthur Koestler 20 years ago explaining in great detail why a computer would never match the human brain at chess. A computer, he argued,would need to analyse every possible consequence before making its first move, and that would take forever. Obviously he failed to anticipate the rate at which computers would speed up in terms of theoretical movements per second. More important, he failed to see that computers could be programmed to mimic what we humans latched on to long-since: fuzzy logic.

Thanks for the links. I thought computers had exhausted the game by now. They've certainly killed off the postal game!

Subject: RE: Real World Series-The Chess Championship
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 07:36 PM

NEVER try to retrieve a post, once you've pressed that 'submit' button....