Author: Mark Young
Date: 20:11:08 10/08/03
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On October 08, 2003 at 10:52:07, Jorge Pichard wrote: >This is a great article: > >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1229 I don't think this is a great article, I see nothing profound or do I see any new insights in the article. Question #1 How large is the gap right now, and who is ahead? Answer: "There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that chess computers have surpassed the top grandmasters. The top humans are holding their ground, battling the top computers to a long series of seven straight drawn matches." I have no master degree in statistics, but I think most people would conclude the same thing from seven drawn matches with 2700+ GM players. Question #2 Who is improving faster, top grandmasters or chess computers? What can we say about how the situation will be different in one year, or ten years, or fifty years? Jeff Sonas: "This leads us right in to the second (and much more difficult) question: Are chess computers improving faster than grandmasters? I will tackle this question in Part II, next week." I have no idea why Jeff Sonas would say that question #2 is much more difficult. It is clear from just the data he has shown that the computers are improving much faster then the grandmasters. We are no longer talking about computers playing matches with 2500 or 2600 or 2700 rated players anymore. The computers are now playing the very top players, GM Kasparov and GM Kramnik. The computers can play no others stronger. And as Jeff Sonas has pointed out the humans are only "holding their ground". I would think no one would say that computer chess has reached its peak or is in anyway slowing down when it comes to better play by chess programs.
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