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Subject: Re: Who is the better chess program author?

Author: Janosch Zwerensky

Date: 11:03:06 12/13/01

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>I disagree here.
>If someone can find a way to teach programs to plan in similiar way to humans
>GMs they can be better than the best humans.

If someone would find a way to have their program do GM-level chess reasoning in
real time, they'd probably indeed get a very strong program. I just doubt that
this is doable with currently available computing hardware and I also doubt that
on hardware that is powerful enough to allow one to implement GM-like chess
reasoning there are no simpler ways of building a program that performs better
at OTB chess than any human grandmaster.

>
>Computers sre faster then GM's

I doubt that this holds for complex pattern recognition tasks, with currently
available computers.

> and I believe that they can be better in every
>thinking game that humans play.

I think it is very plausible that _some day_ computers will outrun humans at any
game. However, I am aware of no reason to believe that only with software
improvements we could, in principle, have a machine becoming the Go world
champion, for example.

>
>I believe that a GM who is a good programmer and understand what he knows can do
>the best program.
>
>The last part is the hardest part and I doubt if there is a human
>who understand what he knows.

Here I agree with you again.

Regards,
janosch.



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