Which one are you more excited to watch?
Rybka vs. Zappa (Best of 10 – Last machine standing)
or
The World Championship (Anand, Kramnik, Gelfand, Grischuk, Aronian, Leko, Svidler, Morozevich)
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
This is a meaningless contest. Ten games are too few for a computer match. Statistically either could win with so few games, so what does it prove? To see which engine has a winning advantage over the other check out any of the various rating services e.g.
http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/Replay/replay.htm
Computer battles are interesting in their own right, but the psychological struggle that occurs between human players is a wonderful thing which computers cannot (at least currently) surpass. As to which excites me more: No contest. The WCC tournament. Living, sometimes-flawed, emotional, intuitive players of the game beat out silicon in the excitement department any day of the week.
Agreed – no psychology with computers
I would be more interested in the computer match if it was held over the WCC time controls, rather than rapid chess that they are going to be playing.
Cant watch the WCC games live much at all as they start at 5am where I live.
Garvin
The vast majority of computer matches I can replicate in my own living room. Hundreds of times over, on my own schedule. Can’t do that with a human match. =)
Humans are so weak! Go Rybka!!