Author: Victor Valenzia
Date: 20:53:10 07/12/00
How do you think that today’s best players would fare if they did NOT know that they were playing against a computer? Suppose, for the sake of argument, they were only told that they were playing against a very formidable opponent. Let’s take a top program on super hardware (i.e. Deep Junior in Dortmund). The operator would somehow have the moves transmitted to him, perhaps by a tiny earpiece. Without the “anti-computer” strategy, how do you think that the top players in the world would fare in this scenario? What do you think the hardware’s ELO would be in this case? Let’s take it a step further. Suppose we could take our super hardware back in time and pit it against Fischer, Alekhine, and Capablanca, all of whom had no experience playing against computers? What do you think the results would be? I might be wrong, but my opinion is that the computer would defeat most of the great players from the past. What do you think? Victor
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