Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 03:01:15 10/19/04
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On October 19, 2004 at 02:56:31, Tony Nichols wrote: > As far as the future goes...Chess is not a purely mathematical game so humans >will always have chances against computers. Not mathematical? Care to explain why you think that, or why you think humans will always have chances? Exhaustively searching the game tree seems quite mathematical to me, and seems to leave virtually no chance for humans. >I think as hardware technology >progresses we will see changes to match rules. For example; limited opening >book, limited endgame tablebases, maybe even longer time controls. So we're going to move to handicap matches? Or do the humans have to play without their "opening book" too? We could organize Man vs. Machine foot races against automobiles. We could make the automobiles use solar powered lawn mower engines and square wheels. Oh how proud we will feel if we win... >All these >things favor the human player. In fact just taking away the opening book would >eliminate interest in these matches very quickly! Computers do not know how to >unbalance the position very well. They tend to play very passive openings or >just complete garbage. When a GM plays against a computer in the opening he's >actually playing against other GMs. You could a chess program think for a month >and it's never going to play the first ten moves of the Najdorf! That's the difference. We humans create these mental crutches to compensate for our lack of long term tactical vision. You think humans are going to have a chance because computers don't understand our crutches. That's kind of backwards, don't you think? One day the computer will steadily count down the number of moves until mate while you snicker at how it doesn't even understand the Najdorf. Again, that logic seems backwards to me, considering a means to an end as more important than the end itself.
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