Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 13:56:05 04/09/99
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On April 09, 1999 at 16:37:45, KarinsDad wrote: >On April 09, 1999 at 14:04:03, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >[snip] >> >>>Also, I have been a long time believer that the Top Programs should >>>be allowed to compete for the World Chess Champion, >> >>I agree. >> >[snip] > >Here is one area where I disagree. We still have Olympic 400 meters races, but >even my old truck would beat any human in that event. > I think chess is essentially different from races, soccer, wrestling, ice hockey, weight lifting and all that. While we will never mistake a truck for a human in a race, it is not easy to tell a computer from a human based only on the game score move by move. It can not be logically deduced that some player is a computer only from that. >There are some areas of competition where computers vs. humans is fine, but the >World Chess Championship should not be one of them. We all realize that there >will be a point in the future that ANY modern computer chess program could take >the current world chess champion apart at any time controls, so this is an area >that should be left for humanity (the same as motorcycles are not used in track >and field or in horse races). > I think that a young talented chess player trained with those advanced chess playing machines can overcome them, for some time at least. BTW, in a TV ad I have seen a horse in a motorcycle race! >This is also my reasoning for why Advanced Chess is a flash in the pan. Once the >programs become strong enough, the human just becomes a program operator at that >point. > >KarinsDad :) I agree that advanced chess is a flash in the pan, I Mexico we would say it is a "llamarada de petate". That is only an exhibition promoted by Kasparov to make more money. José (:
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