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Fri, 2003 Nov 14
Devil Dog
Without explanation good old Dave had this picture in his blog today. We sometimes refer to our chocolate lab, Mousse, a 9 month old puppy, as "Devil Dog". We're hoping he grows out of it.
Fritz Wins After Kasparov Blunders
It now looks like chess playing software will have to be designed to blunder occasionally in order to pass the Turing test - since that is what even the strongest human players do - in spite of what Ian Rogers said in commenting on game two yesterday between Kasparov and Fritz:
Fritz surprised the pundits by making good move after good move, the same moves suggested by the many top-level human players in attendance. Australian #1 Ian Rogers proposed that X3D Fritz had passed the chess Turing test, the point at which a computer becomes indistinguishable from a human!