Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 14:36:40 10/29/04
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On October 29, 2004 at 09:25:50, Tony Petters wrote: > >A Mature Market means the product no longer has significant improvements, so >there is no point in getting involved in it commercially. An example would be >wordprocessors. > >We all use to fight tooth and nail on rgcc and ccc to get what we want on new >software releases, now it seems the vast majority have been added, even test >suites. > >It seems with all the great great software available both commercially and >amateur that there is little room for improvement left. > >For example Fritz has virtually every function a person could ever dream of and >the graphics are certainly adequate for play. > >Perhaps, some of you have an opinion on this. > >Cordially Almost. The computer provides an opponent strong enough for anyone, as well as good analysis. However, there is one thing that the computer is very bad at: teaching humans how to play better chess. A computer can't say: I think white should play on the queenside so as to shatter the black pawnstructure. It can't say: Black shouldn't take this pawn because he will have to wade through a tactical melee for the next 30 moves. Note that in terms of absolute chess strength the machines still have quite a ways to go before they approach perfect play, but that they are still far stronger than the average player (elo 400) so it doesn't matter much to most people ;) anthony
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