Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:02:10 07/13/98
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On July 13, 1998 at 10:46:53, Shaun Graham wrote: >On July 13, 1998 a >> >>Fritz is a GM at 5 min chess, and 30 min chess but not at 40 moves in 2 hours. >>Even if computers today were 2 to 3 times faster I don't think Fritz 5 would be >>a GM at slow chess. >> >>If you were to play Fritz 5 as a human, it would work for a few games, but it >>would not take the stronger players long to find your weakness and knock Fritz 5 >>back to earth. > > >If you admit as you say "it would work for a few games" that's all that's >required, because in a swiss system, I would not be playing that person again so >i just need to win once. I doubt that you can recieve any title based upon >match play. So what i was saying, is that going into a swiss system >tourney(excluding computer bias of the opponents, that is they would play normal >chess), Fritz would get the norm, because there would be no learning of these >weekneses. Most GM's get there norms at swiss systems were they don't really >get to prepare for their opponents to any great extent(in the past the portable >super databases we have now weren't even available). This is in great contrast >to the tournaments we always here about such as Linares, Wijk aan zee, etc., >that are Round robin invitationals were you know who will be there, and who you >will play beforehand and thus are able to prepare. > Please play in a few big tournaments first. Once it became known that the program is playing, *everyone* will know from that point forward, and things will go sour. It's happened to every computer that has ever participated in many events. They start out with a bang, but once they became "known" and the players start exchanging info, the result is inevitable... >> >>I know Michael, and you are correct. He is stronger then some GM's.
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