Author: walter irvin
Date: 12:16:36 07/26/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 14:42:56, KarinsDad wrote: >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 :) i dont know maybe you underestimate humans ,humans can be the most diabolical of chess players,i dont think anymore that computers are destoned to be all powerfull , really believe that deep blue would not have beat kasparov in a longer match. human learning is far better than computer learning , plus there is this diabolical factor of the human mind. i think people will always find away to win .
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