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Subject: Re: Future of Chess: Will GMs be able to draw computers?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 11:50:35 10/19/04

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On October 19, 2004 at 10:27:54, Duncan Roberts wrote:

>the opposing argument is  some people say tablebases and opening theory
>is not computer's memory of other's work, which would be legitimate but looking
>things up in a book, which a person is not allowed to. (although I think Hyatt
>said you can get round that)
>
>I think kasparov's preferred way to make things 'fair' is for the human be
>allowed access to any opening books the computer has.
>
>
>what is your opinion on a human having access to his own computer databases.?


I think this goes back to Tord's point: computers and humans have different
strengths and weaknesses. A human can access its memory, and it does. The human
just can't remember as much material, at least not in the same way. A computer
remembers millions of individual games which, by themselves, don't have any
strategic meaning. A human sees a lot of games and remembers patterns that have
strategic meaning in millions of individual games.


>(the fact that he may be a bit slow to access it compared to the computer is his
>problem and does not make it intrinsically unfair.)
>
>duncan



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