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Subject: J6 eliminats Illescas- What does Hyatt have to say?

Author: John Kilkenny

Date: 13:55:12 02/13/00


Then again, Hyatt does FULLY imho admit that comps are GMs in the audio
interview.  He say something to the effect " Well if you mean that a GM plays it
like a regular GM(in other words play REGULAR chess), then YES THEY PLAY GM
STRENGTH CHESS!  However once GMs learn their weaknesses they will be able to
beat them".  A shocking admission by Hyatt, because the arguement has always
been that Comps are GMs at regular chess play!  If GMs could learn the
weaknesses of Kasparov and Kasparov had no way to adjust for each opponent. He'd
get beaten like a drum too.  It would just mean that he isn't GM strength
against anti-kasparov play, though at regular chess play he would be.  In other
words in a blind test of say two players playing, where the Human didn't know
his opponent was a computer (example Allwerman case), and plays regular chess,
the comps will play at GM strengtho.  So at regular human vs human chess comps
ARE GM STRENGTH, something which has always been known by the enlightened and
now admitted to by the great prince of the "Comps are not GM" camp R. Hyatt.
  OF course if someone is able to know all of your weaknesses, and you can't
adjust or know all of that individuals weaknesses in particular, such an
opponent will have a major advantage.  Thus is the life of computer chess
programs.  This however, is irrelevant to the point that at comps are GM's at
regular chess play, when the human plays the comp as if it were a human.  So if
you released an "Allwerman-Cheater" on to the swiss system scene, and he was
able to quickly play in a large number of swiss events where GM norms were
available, all around the world he would quickly get the the norms required.
Hyatt's camp breaks to it's knees :)(Sorry had to add the drama at the end it's
been a long hard fight hahaha)



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