[Wittrs] Re: Who beat Kasparov?
- From: Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:00:42 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Tue, 3/16/10, SWM <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I believe the designers at IBM created Deep Blue as a
>> tool for beating Kasparov at chess. They, not Deep Blue,
>> beat Kasparov.
>
>
> Yes, but isn't this mainly an artifact of how we choose to
> look at it? Although I wouldn't cast this as an expression
> of "belief" as you have done, I certainly would say it seems
> to me that the machine beat Kasparov though not in the way a
> human opponent would have done it. And, in a sense, I would
> also say the designers beat him.
I think you need to make up your mind, Stuart.
Which statement below is true?
A) The chess computer named Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess.
B) The designers of the chess computer named Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess.
I don't consider this a complicated question!
-gts
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