Author: KarinsDad
Date: 11:42:56 07/26/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 13:49:31, Mark Schreiber wrote: >I have a question that I have not seen in the opinion poll. Now that the Fide >world champion Karpov has drawn 1 game with Shredder at slow time controls, >should computers be allowed to play in the qualifying matches for the world >championship? Even if a computer did not become world champion, It would be >interesting to see how far a computer would go. My short answer is no. The World Chess Championship has been a human achievement for the last hundred years. It should stay that way. To have a silicon monster as the reigning World Championship will cause more of a split than the FIDE/PGA one did. I also do not want the Fritz team or the Junior team (or whomever) to have control over the World Chess Championship for 2 years or whatever. It's bad enough that FIDE tries to control it. The politics involved with a silicon based champion could extend into things such as multiple computer manufacturers getting in the picture, etc. And finally, unlike human players who may get better, or may get worse over time, the programs will only get better (on average). Hence, once a program wins the championship, it would probably only give it up to another program. That would effectively end the World Chess Championship as we know it (i.e. we would have to construct a separate championship for humans only anyway at that point in time). KarinsDad :)
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