Many people, including non-chess players, remember Kaparov-Deep Blue 1997, which Deep Blue did win, but forget Kasparov-Deep Blue 1996, which Kasparov won by a larger margin.
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checkmateibeatu wrote:
Many people, including non-chess players, remember Kaparov-Deep Blue 1997, which Deep Blue did win, but forget Kasparov-Deep Blue 1996, which Kasparov won by a larger margin.
To be fair, the second computer was significantly stronger than the first. It was termed "Deeper Blue" at the time. Fischer had a rather easier time against Greenblatt, which was feeble. And the MIT programmers thought it would beat him - 
. Perhaps they should have tried it against a decent club player first. Of course there's no discredit to Fischer that chess computers hardly existed in his day.
[On a totally unconnected point, I've just noticed that on the chessmetrics 20 year rating list, Korchnoi is 5th after 4 world champions. Lasker and Alekhine are the two whose names do not begin with K].
I think I might post an updated scoreboard at some point.
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Yes, it's like the record has a nasty scratch on it.
It'd be nothing like the calluses on the poor bugger's hands, just lucky he's got the Fischer doll to violate every now and then.
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Guys, please don't mock rjfwc. Following his persistent swearing, abuse and disturbing comments such as stating that Kasparov is going to hell, I have alerted the mods and it is now in their hands. As I said before, the best thing to do -- considering the OP has long left the thread and it now is being kept alive by someone who thinks Kasparov is trying to destroy the Russian people -- is let this thread end.
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I also think this is way too far gone, so I created a thread campaigning for this thread to go as well.
Right... the saboteurs are the victims...
Where have we heard THAT before.
RJFWC wrote:
Right... the saboteurs are the victims...
Where have we heard THAT before.
If you hadn't posted that thread anouncing that Fischer was the best and no one could oppose that, this thread would not be where it is now.
Personally I'm amazed the guy can even type considering the size of calluses he must be sporting. ;-)
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See what I meant when I said this is too far gone?
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No seriously mate, I'd like to shake hands with you.........................;but I doubt you'd be able to, they must look like giant prize winning cauliflowers by now.
@RJFWC,
the record seems to be stuck. It's one from the early 1970s.