Computer Chess Page #6

You're welcome.

That's it.

- Thanks. Good game.

- Good game.

(Henderson) Black resigns.

Mate in one more move.

Les, I really would appreciate

a copy of that transcript.

- I'll ask for you...

- Yeah, please do.

I must say

that was a very intense game

played between

two wonderful computer chess players

- and we've seen some of the

- What just happened?

I'm talking on camera.

Could you please move?

- I'm talking to my camera.

- I understand that, but...

Please talk to my Rules Committee

over here.

- This, the... Your Rules Committee?

- Thank you, John. Thank you.

This one little guy

is your Rules Committee?

That was an amazing game,

an extremely good computer programme.

What do you think the problem is?

You just saw...

Yes, I just saw

Allied win the tournament.

You just saw...

You just saw Goliath beat David.

And you're paying 'em for it.

You're rewarding 'em for it.

This will be ALLIANCE

versus yours truly...

- ...creative programming...

- They bought great ability!

If you had that kind of resources,

you would show great ability also!

(Dave) Hey, Peter!

Hey, how are you?

No ice!

Hey, what are you doing right now?

Hey, why don't you

come say hi to Pauline?

- Who?

- My wife. Come on!

Let's meet Pauline.

- Yeah, I've been... You all right?

- Yeah.

I've been telling her about you.

Yeah.

(J' Record plays)

(Dave) Sweetie?

- Are you decent?

- (Paul) What?

I brought a friend here.

I met Peter, my friend, in the hallway.

Come on in, Peter. Hey.

Is it OK?

I'm gonna bring him in.

- Yes, yeah.

- All right.

- Oh, hi. Hi, Peter.

- This is my wife, Pauline.

- Pauline, Peter.

- Oh, welcome, welcome.

Hey, come on in.

Have a seat.

- Put you right over there.

- OK. Yeah.

(Tapping rhythm on ice bucket)

Hey, no ice.

- Oh.

- Oh.

So, I wish we could offer you

a drink or something, but...

Yeah, our guy, Keneiloe,

he just says, "No...

"No alcohol, no dope."

Keneiloe is very strict

about that sort of thing.

Right, right. He says it's a spiritual shortcut -

unearned grace.

- Have you ever tried LSD?

- Oh, honey, come on!

Spanish Inquisition over here.

Give the boy some room here,

let him settle in.

Er, no...

(Clears throat) Er...

I've read about it though,

and I thought it was interesting how...

just a temporary hallucination

can have a permanent effect

on some people,

on their... on their consciousness,

just chemically.

I love the way his mind is...

working.

(Chuckles)

Dave's just crazy about you guys.

It's like he's a little kid

and the circus is in town.

He just wants to run away.

(Dave) It's true,

I want to run away.

Hey, let me get you something -

a soda...

water from the tap,

something like that?

I know that you've told Dave all about

your computers and your technology,

but has Dave taken a moment

to tell you what we're doing here?

A little bit.

Don't you think it's strange

that we're all here at the same time?

Pauline and I don't actually believe

there's such a thing as...

Coincidence.

- ...coincidence.

- Yeah.

We're all kind of like seekers here.

You know what I think

is so neat about you guys

is you're kind of like mental explorers.

Hmm.

You know,

I mean, with the computers

you're kind of like way out there

like Columbus,

sailing the ocean blue,

uncharted new territory.

You don't know

what you're going to find.

There may be something really beautiful

on the other side.

But Peter, did you ever ask yourself,

"How many squares

are there on a chessboard?"

It's an eight-by-eight grid.

Well, but don't you see

how limited that is?

No...

It's actually very complex when you start

to think about it as a programming problem.

Just the number of possible games

explode exponentially with each move.

It's close to 10 to 120th power,

and to try and compute all those games

might take even longer

than humanity would be around to do so.

Oh, wow.

Oh, man.

But look at the whole world -

you want to be the best chess player,

and that's beautiful, it is,

and I honour the beauty of that,

and the passion

you have to do a thing like that.

But I have to be truthful and tell you

that it also breaks my heart just a little bit,

because you could be

the greatest chess master who ever lived

and still not begin

to tap into your full potential!

I don't want to be a chess player,

it's programming...

(Dave) Right, right,

but if you're a programmer,

you know, the best programmer,

I mean, you could be the greatest...

I mean, he could be the president of IBM...

Well, Dave, he could be the President

of the United States and...

(Both) Right, and still not live up

to his potential.

Have you been with a lot of women, Peter?

(Chuckles)

HEY:

I think I should probably go.

Oh, come on.

Well, I mean,

if you get your kicks some other way...

Oh. Oh, yeah.

We are very open.

We're very accepting, and...

You know, I hate to say it,

but we are actually old enough

to be your parents, and...

if you want to think of us that way, well...

I don't understand

what you mean by that.

(Dave) Peter...

If you want to leave, it's OK.

- You're not gonna hurt our feelings.

- No.

(Dave) It's... You know,

it's a free country, so...

(Pauline) But, honey,

if you want to stay, that's OK, too.

But if you stay, there's just one rule.

And that is that you have to be free.

No 64 squares on a board.

No squares, no board, just...

life!

Squares.

- I think we're the squares here.

- (Laughs) Maybe.

We're just normal everyday people -

a schoolteacher and a secretary.

Why don't you just come

sit down on the bed next to us?

Just sit next to us, that's all...

(Chair creaks)

You know what I like?

I like to get the back of my neck kissed.

- (Kissing sounds)

- Just like Dave is doing.

Just so lightly that...

that it almost tickles.

(Giggles, snorts)

What do you like, Peter?

Peter, you know,

giving pleasure

and receiving pleasure...

they're the same thing.

(Whispers) Two wants to be three.

Papageorge

Freddy.

I was talking to John.

He said that you were gonna pay us.

He thought that you were

gonna win that prize, the money...

I was planning on winning that prize.

But you...

You guys worried about the money

that I owe you?

Well, we got bills.

You took pills from us.

Yeah, I got bills to pay.

All right, well...

I haven't had a chance to leave the hotel yet

to get any money.

I don't have a car.

I don't know when you guys would have

expected me to go get the money -

I've been here the whole time.

- I have a car.

- You have a car?

They got this guy there - this African guru.

I mean, I don't even know

if he really is African.

The guy's probably from Detroit

or something.

They're just chanting and ranting...

Uh, I tell you.

It's all over for the white man.

I wonder how much those people paid

for that conference anyway?

At least I got my catharsis for free.

(Clears throat) Blllaah!

Freddy!

It's marketing.

Right.

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