Author: Chris Carson
Date: 05:07:54 01/06/00
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On January 06, 2000 at 04:56:16, Howard Exner wrote: >When listing the pros and cons of a computer against a human(say a 2500 rated >player) one advantage for the the human is pre game preparation. Most everyone >here speaks of preparation vs computers by arming themselves with anti computer >strategies. As a reference, two nice articles were posted here in the past month >or so by Bruce M and Vincent D about such weaknesses computers have. >(I saved them if you happened to miss them) >This knowledge combined with the opponent intensely preparing against a single >opponent (Rebel Century for example) vs economizing their prep time against many >opponents (tournaments) will >be advantageous for the human. > >How will the computer, in the meantime prepare for the human? Well, it won't - >it would not know the difference if it were playing Kasparov or a weak club >player, barring the tweaking of the opening book by the programmer. > >So I think computers would do better in a string of 50 tournament games >versus 50 match games. Well said Howard. Best Regards, Chris Carson
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