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Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Garry Kasparov v X3D Fritz
I have been pleased this week to see tiny amounts of SMH column space devoted to Garry Kaparov's chess battle with the latest computer challenger, the not real threateningly named X3D Fritz. The score currently sits at man 1 - machine 1 and 1 draw. Kasparov pulled one back for the humans after drawing the first and losing the second in what Sergey Shipov, some chess character, described as a "vexing defeat," where, " .. having outplayed the machine positionally, the human did not venture upon an attack in time trouble, lingered, and failed to hold out till time control."
Reading a little about the games so far, the commentary reminds me equally of military strategy and flirting. I expect Chess players would be good with the chicks and particularly good with chicks with guns.
When Shipov writes, "the possible mating threats are beyond calculation, the machine does not "feel" the danger," we could just as easily, if we replace machine with "c@nt struck punter," be listening to a worldly narrator describing any Saturday night at Jacksons on George. And when he writes, "This dance of the white queen looks queer" we can only conclude that when it comes to flirting and more he is equally at home playing white or black.
Shipov Talks Chess
Bobby Fisher married Marilyn and that makes a little more sense now.
I'm reminded of that line from TOP SECRET, " In women's tennis, i always root against the hetrosexual, " when i say,without much confidence, i hope Kasparov wins. I followed his battle against Deep Blue back in 1997 where he won but I suspect this time he will lose. And even if he did win, evolution is not what it once was. The computers will get better and we will still be eating McDonalds and sucking piss.
It might be X3D Fritz, hell, it could be a Terminator, " I'll be back with queen to rook four" victory but capitulate we will. Nature's way seems to be that technology will win.
I remember once on SBS seeing a doco about a tribe of South American Indians. It was a custom for the Indians to send groups of men into the rain forest where each group would chop down a tree, hack off its branches and run back to the village while carrying the log on their backs. While watching the documentary one could only conclude the object was to be the first group back to the village with the log. But long after the first group had returned the villagers would be excitedly greeting each group, with cheers and kisses from the women, as they entered the village . Only after the last group entered the village was it revealed that the first group back was not the winner; for the Indians it was about carrying the logs "beautifully."
Computers don't know that winning isn't everything.
Reading a little about the games so far, the commentary reminds me equally of military strategy and flirting. I expect Chess players would be good with the chicks and particularly good with chicks with guns.
When Shipov writes, "the possible mating threats are beyond calculation, the machine does not "feel" the danger," we could just as easily, if we replace machine with "c@nt struck punter," be listening to a worldly narrator describing any Saturday night at Jacksons on George. And when he writes, "This dance of the white queen looks queer" we can only conclude that when it comes to flirting and more he is equally at home playing white or black.
Bobby Fisher married Marilyn and that makes a little more sense now.
I'm reminded of that line from TOP SECRET, " In women's tennis, i always root against the hetrosexual, " when i say,without much confidence, i hope Kasparov wins. I followed his battle against Deep Blue back in 1997 where he won but I suspect this time he will lose. And even if he did win, evolution is not what it once was. The computers will get better and we will still be eating McDonalds and sucking piss.
It might be X3D Fritz, hell, it could be a Terminator, " I'll be back with queen to rook four" victory but capitulate we will. Nature's way seems to be that technology will win.
I remember once on SBS seeing a doco about a tribe of South American Indians. It was a custom for the Indians to send groups of men into the rain forest where each group would chop down a tree, hack off its branches and run back to the village while carrying the log on their backs. While watching the documentary one could only conclude the object was to be the first group back to the village with the log. But long after the first group had returned the villagers would be excitedly greeting each group, with cheers and kisses from the women, as they entered the village . Only after the last group entered the village was it revealed that the first group back was not the winner; for the Indians it was about carrying the logs "beautifully."
Computers don't know that winning isn't everything.
