Author: blass uri
Date: 12:32:55 01/17/00
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On January 17, 2000 at 13:16:46, Laurence Chen wrote: >On January 17, 2000 at 12:57:26, James A. Tackett wrote: > >> As a long time purchaser of many chess programs, I am most interested in the >>playing style of the program rather than its objective strength. I would like >>to here opinions on which comercial chess program comes closest to playing like >>a HUMAN master. >None.... Reason, when humans play against another human, there's that >psychological edge one can have over a human opponent. The fear against stronger >opponents or the aura of superiority can be a major factor when humans play >against each other. With computers, well, one always have to check all moves for >tactical errors, against humans its not really necessary because humans are not >calculators. So, computers can never imitate the human style, if it did it would >have also imitate the human flaws with it. :) >Laurence I do not agree that they can never imitate the human style. computer program can do tactical errors if the programmer tell then to do it. chessmaster personalities do tactical errors but not in the same way as humans but it does not prove that it is impossible to do programs to play errors in the same way as humans. Uri
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