Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 03:06:05 10/19/04
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On October 19, 2004 at 05:57:06, Vasik Rajlich wrote: [snip] >In a few years no humans will have a chance (under current rules). Computers >still have huge strategic holes - there is a lot of progress still to be made. >Chess is tactical enough that a 15-ply search compensates in practice for all >sorts of strategic deficiency. It's hard to beat somebody who is stronger than >you tactically. > >It's a sort of interesting accident that computer vs human is balanced at the >moment. If the game was more tactical, humans would already be crushed and we >would accept it as a matter of course. If it was more positional, humans would >still be stronger, maybe much stronger. *agrees to everything* :) A game more tactical than Chess is Othello (also called Reversi) where humans have no chance since many years. A game less tactical is Go, where the best computers play like weak amateurs. Personally I don't think it's very interesting to know whether computers get stronger than humans five years ago, today or in five years (in chess). But I seem to be in the minority here. Sargon
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