"I made a firm decision for myself to take any challenge. And even if
one day I'm doomed to lose, I thought it would be absolutely vital for
us to play and to fight as long as we can."
"Here we are to discuss the ultimate question of whether one day the
computer will beat the human world champion. Maybe it will happen in
a week's time. But I remain a cautious optimist in the progress of
human brains as well. I still believe that there are some horizons it
will be very difficult for computers to cross."
"I know that my opponent is invisible, but I strongly believe that
it's not invincible. And I hope that I could use my general knowledge
of computers, and I hope that the ideas and the strategy that I will
employ during the match could still help me to defend our dignity.
Thank you."
"The simple fact is that IBM spent so many years to study this program and
selected chess as the training field for its future powerful machines.
I think it's another proof that nothing else but chess could give us
this opportunity to see if we could compete with computers and how far
computers could go in that direction."
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