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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:50:18 10/20/04

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On October 20, 2004 at 04:53:24, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On October 19, 2004 at 23:22:10, Jay Urbanski wrote:
>
>>I have to concur.  I'm not even sure they could do it today.  Kasparov & Kramnik
>>both failed against 4-way Xeons.  A 4-way Opteron is quite a bit faster.  Next
>>year we will sell 32-way 3.6GHz Xeons.  I don't think I'd have my money on the
>>human against such a machine.
>
>Oh, but haven't you heard? Humans can't win under those conditions so we're
>going to change the rules so that the human ego doesn't have to suffer.
>
>;)

Humans cannot win?
I am not sure and maybe the reason is simply that they did not learn how to win.

Maybe the programmers are quilty because they did not spend enough time on
writing programs to teach the top humans to play better.

Uri



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