Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 10:41:05 05/23/02
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On May 22, 2002 at 11:54:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 21, 2002 at 21:16:15, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>Did you know that you are one of very very few who are thinking about such >>factors? Thinking and talking about. > > >I don't think so. _several_ have mentioned "motivation" repeatedly. It takes >a lot of motivation to go out and do something that is very difficult. Such >as trying to push a computer off the board. You only have to look at the >last Deep Blue vs Kasparov match to see just how difficult Kasparov found the >match to be. If the absolute most weight you can lift is 500 pounds, you will >find that going out many times and lifting 499 pounds is a _very_ difficult >task to mentally prepare for, unless the reward is significant enough to make >it worthwhile. That is a beautiful comparison. Let's add the social aspects if the crowd sees the 499 or 450 already as a boring thing or loss. (Or and that might have been the Kasparov Trap: he himself might have expected the 501 without preparation.) But honestly the question: Why, if all that is absolutely clear for you and others as you say, why do you stress the meaning of contracts as fair which were only accepted because all these aspects could not be foreseen by Kasparov? Why do you put the factual over the human? Why do you pretend to be unaware of all the social and psychological aspects, although you know them so well, as you demonstrated here? What was it after all, the strength of DB or the confusion of Kasparov in the social situation? Don't you see that artefacts might destroy the sense of results? And was that the intention of the DB team? I still can't believe it. But the consequences are visible: FIDE banned computers in tournament play. Kramnik wants FRITZ (sic!) 6 months in advance and some more rules. The FRITZ even Eduard Nemeth with Elo 2100 can beat almost at will? Strange. Rolf Tueschen
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