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Subject: Re: Weak-chain argument (How fatal are weaknesses)

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 02:27:55 02/17/03

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On February 16, 2003 at 21:48:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 16, 2003 at 13:58:19, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2003 at 12:14:55, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On February 16, 2003 at 06:46:33, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 15, 2003 at 22:17:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 15, 2003 at 14:52:10, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On February 15, 2003 at 14:34:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Answer me this, What Difference Does it make if you play more
>>>>>>>>positional chess, if you cannot defeated me??
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>If that were the case, I would agree.  But by the same token, do you want
>>>>>>>your program to play 30 brilliant moves and one lemon move, over and over?
>>>>>>>That one lemon will drag your performance _way_ down at the top of the rating
>>>>>>>scale.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Bob, may I point out with humility that this is exactly my weak-chain argument?
>>>>>>Finally we are on the point. Did you ever reflect what would happen if
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - in a really recompensating money atmosphere and
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - after top players adopted specific comp related chess?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>And that on the base of a known permanent weakness?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>That is the point. And not the typical hype based on show events /commercials.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>What is you impression with the GM play on ICC? But note, Roman D. had to face
>>>>>>an always changed version [on the base of his own hints]. Guess what will happen
>>>>>>if several top GM work hard on a counter strategy against comps, in other words
>>>>>>if GM adopt 'Eduard'...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Only then, and that is my argument since long, the actual commercial progs begin
>>>>>>to SUCK. But on a permanent base!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>My questions to Amir went a bit in the same direction. Let's see how far the
>>>>>>experts can open their mind.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Rolf Tueschen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>The question is "too hard" for someone that is _not doing this_.  IE who can
>>>>>say what a top GM player would do when folks start waving a million bucks
>>>>>around?  IE would he try to stomp the program and end the matches for years?
>>>>>Would he intentionally "play down" to guarantee another million dollar match
>>>>>next year?
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm not capable or qualified to answer that...
>>>>>
>>>>>And anything I might say would be absolute 100% speculation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>But - you are qualified enough, perhaps the best qualified in the field, to
>>>>judge the actual strength of the progs in relation to GM and their chess. Say,
>>>>the GM would run wild and were determined to kill, would they succeed or not,
>>>>that is the question, NOT would they really want that or would they do it.
>>>>
>>>>I know the answer from all what you said. But you want to hide it? For what
>>>>sensible goal? Do you want to avoid the deception of computerchess lovers
>>>>worldwide? Or don't you want to harm the future show events?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Rolf Tueschen
>>>
>>>
>>>The answer is "none of the above."  I'm not willing to speculate about things
>>>that I ultimately have no way of proving.  IE how can I prove what he was
>>>thinking and what his motivation was?  And without any way to prove/disprove
>>>anything, I don't see how my comments could help, although they could
>>>certainly hurt.
>>
>>:)
>>
>>I have a very simple question without speculations. How fatal are the actual
>>weaknesses of computer programs?
>>
>>A) against players like Eduard
>>
>>B) against Super-GM
>
>This is simply too hard to answer.  It is about like asking the question
>"how can we set rules so that a computer and a human play _equally_ without
>one side having some unfair advantage?"
>
>Computers and humans are so different, in such basic ways, that such a
>question is impossible to answer.  Which means that trying to equate this
>weakness of the computer against that weakness of the human is _really_ too
>abstract to deal with (to me)...
>
>>
>>C) against a group of GM [playing them in tournament chess] who would
>>concentrate on so called computerchess, here I agree I have a somewhat
>>theoretical model in mind, namely the idea that they could develop a sort of
>>strong anti-comp strategy, I am not talking about the actually known anti-comp
>>of Eduard or tricks like Trojan or whatever.
>>
>>Rolf Tueschen

Hehe. So let's forget about seraching _equal_ weaknesses. Let's only talk about
the best possible chess (weakly performed by the best SUPER GM) and of the
weaknesses of the actual CC. Enough efforts predefined or assured - are these
weaknesses fatal or NOT?

Better?

Rolf Tueschen



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