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Chips vs. the chess masters

mardi, 1 octobre 2002 • 07:25MarioSpina

Un autre article intéressant sur le combat de titans qui aura lieu sous peu entre Kasparov - Deep Junior (décembre) et Kramnik - Deep Fritz (octobre). On y fait l'apologie de Deep Blue en expliquant les différences de design entre les 3 systèmes. En gros, il semble que l'exercice soit beaucoup plus une campagne publicitaire pour les créateurs des logiciels Deep Fritz et Deep Junior qu'un réel match. Il semble clair pour tous (excepté les concepteurs des logiciels) que Deep Blue était largement supérieur en force brute comparativement à  ces derniers. Naturellement, il sera très intéressant de voir la réaction des gens si un des deux humains perd contre une machine probablement moins forte que Deep Blue.

links: Brains In Bahrain

Five years after a historic defeat, humans may be poised for a comeback. When IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat chess champion Garry Kasparov five years ago, the case seemed closed: The wetware of the human brain was simply no longer a match for the hardware of a chess-playing machine. So what, exactly, is the point of Man vs. Machine, Round II–two upcoming contests that pit today's best chess programs against Kasparov and the current world champion, Vladimir Kramnik?


Deep Blue's 1997 victory over Kasparov felt hollow to computer chess experts. They had dreamed for decades about beating the world's best human, but in the event, Kasparov fell apart psychologically. He later said he felt "ashamed" of the way he'd played, having made an obvious blunder in the final, deciding game. "I should have been exulting, but I was feeling empty inside," writes Deep Blue team member Feng-Hsiung Hsu in Behind Deep Blue, a memoir published this fall. "The game felt too easy."

As a result, Kramnik says, no one really knows how computer chess measures up. "The question was still open, is still open: Is it stronger than, let's say, the strongest human being?" Deep Blue isn't available for a rematch, so these new contests aim to answer that question. But this time it could be the computers that aren't at the top of their game. Some experts say that, compared with Deep Blue, they may actually be a step backward...

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