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Subject: Re: What if these IGM's did NOT know they were playing against a computer?

Author: ujecrh

Date: 06:31:37 07/13/00

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On July 12, 2000 at 23:53:10, Victor Valenzia wrote:

>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?

This is probably hard to predict because, even if no anti-computer technique
would be used, it would also avoid situations when the GM is simply psyched out
because he knows he is playing a computer.

Ujecrh



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