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Subject: Re: Why people are angry about DB

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:38:43 01/31/00

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On January 31, 2000 at 17:40:47, leonid wrote:
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>Also all this people that work now in the field of chess programming are the
>real killers of future chess game. Once all the programs will beat the human (we
>are almost there), human will drop the game for ever. Why play the game that
>humilate you all the time and indice you dealy feeling of unavoidable
>inferiority?

No way.

A fast chess program on a fast computer can already beat 99.999% of us 99.999%
of the time.  Did that kill our love for the game?  Those who can stand against
them as peers are a very elite minority.  In essense, the death knoll you
mention was crossed long ago.

A race car or motorcycle can clobber a sprinter in 100 meters.  Did that wipe
out the Olypic games or even lessen our enthusiasm?

At some point, computers will make moves that are beautifully sublime.  If
anything, it will increase my enjoyment of computer chess, and chess in general.



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