Kramnik Ties Fritz; Machines Not Yet Our Masters

Maltov writes "World Chess Champion V. Kramnik ties his match against the software Fritz. Details here. You can also check out a picture gallery and a short history of computer chess."

Is it just me...

[strredwolf]

or are we going to start getting The Onion [theonion.com] inspired subject titles?

Dateline

[Anonymous Coward]

PARIS, FRANCE. Upon hearing news that "Kramnik Ties Fritz; Machines Not Yet Our Masters" France surrendered all cash assets and welcomed their new overlords. France was quoted as saying, "please be gentle"

Re:Machines Not Yet Our Masters?

[Namtar]

Chess is nothing. I'll be impressed when an A.I. chat bot can talk a girl into a date. This would be a tool every slashdotter could appreciate.

upping the "playing strength" (or volume)

[sssmashy]

"We've learned a lot from this, and there is much we can do to increase Fritz's playing strength." Frans Morsch, creator of Fritz

For instance, they could install louder speakers to increase the effectiveness of Fritz's Shakespearian heckling ...

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The True Master

[russellh]

Oh I think machines have been our master for a long time. Especially during the floppy era (Please insert disk #18, press any key to continue...). Can we ignore their requests? I think not. Do they ignore ours? They don't even listen! No amount of threats or yelling at the computer will change their behavior, and yet their simple, calm request for the any key causes fear and panic throughout humanity. In addition, we have served the machines very well by evolving them quite rapidly, and they have returned the favor with addictive mind-numbing games for us. They get smarter while we get dumber. Hmm..

On the subject of changing game...

[Cheese Cracker]

How about letting Bill Gates play russian roulette against a Linux machine? It would be cool if it was
going to be featured on a reality show on TV. :)

Re:Not masters, but equals

[uchian]

Machines aren't ruled by emotion, which gives them a distinct advantage over humans.

Think, it means they don't get scared, intimidated. They never make a mistake due to hasty judgement, or the pressure of the situation.

And to counter the Terminator 2 arguments, machines would not get jealous at being sub-serviant, they would not care about being controlled by humans... Unless some human programmed them to act like that.

But how logical would it be for someone to do that? Ummm... err... humans not logical, erm... doh

Kramnik shoulda asked for a tiebreaker...

[mtec]

A game of checkers.

Tie?!? WTF

[bobdotorg]

WTF! No overtime? No sudden death chess?

A Tie?!? How unAmerican is that?

Oh, wait.

In related news...

[Anonymous Coward]

... Kramnik was stumped by the ATM machine as he attempted to withdraw enough money for lunch.

Re:It goes deeper than chess knowledge

[Omega Hacker]

> Human weakness #3: we get scared, computers don't.

You had a pretty good set of arguments going there, until this last one. And I quote:

"No disassemble Johnny Five!"

Re:First Chess machine

[Anonymous Coward]

Thankfully things have come a little way since then...

Why? Is the midget included now?

Re:A draw after 21 moves only?

[theperplepigg]

that particular match did have the possibility of kramnik tying. But, he ran out of time, due in large part to fritz heckling him. see article from yesterday here [slashdot.org] an the link to the script of the heckling [chessbase.com] during that match. a humorous read.

--paul

Re:Tie?!? WTF

[Anonymous Coward]

Tell that to Bud Selig.

Tying?! There's no tying in baseball!!!

Kramnick Limerick

[mtec]

There was a young Russian named Kramnick
Who at chess was just real frickin' slick,
He came back in a blitz
But could only tie Fritz
he exclaimed "just a tie, and my wallet's so thick!"

(sorry)

who knew

[Aleph Yin]

i for one welcome our new chess-playing overlords.

Butlerian Jihad

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll let that speak for itself :)