Author: KarinsDad
Date: 12:28:07 07/09/99
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On July 09, 1999 at 14:06:06, Paulo Soares wrote: [snip] > >I do not believe that the computers can some day defeat a postal >player if he will also be assisted by a program, therefore the >player always goes to have the control of the program, to look the >best way. > >Paulo Soares, from Brazil With today's programs and an extremely good postal player, I would agree with you (although anomalies could happen). But just look at how far advanced chess programs have come within the last 25 years. Within the next 25 years and with technology such as DB Junior, it is quite conceivable that chess programs could beat any correspondence player who is not using a program. Since on any given day any chess program of similar strength can beat any other chess program of similar strength, it will not matter in 25 years whether the correspondence player is using a program or not. On any given day, the program that does not have a correspondence player assisting should have a fair chance of beating the program that does. Additionally, if you have read any of the comments by today's IMs or GMs concerning postal players, you will notice that most of the comments indicate that postal players (even the best of them) are nowhere near the superGM level of play. Personally, I cannot say one way or the other. But if the GMs who have analyzed postal games think that the play is inferior and computer programs are knocking on the door of beating superGMs, it seems very likely that even by using a computer, good postal players will one day lose to the computers. It seems inevitable. Even the best postal player today can walk into a 30 ply deep tactical mistake and the program will not usually help. In fact, a program could unduly influence a player into making an inferior move. KarinsDad :)
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