Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:05:01 02/13/00
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On February 13, 2000 at 17:42:24, Bradley Woodward wrote: >On February 13, 2000 at 16:55:12, John Kilkenny wrote: > >>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. > >Why is it that some section of the computer chess community feel the urge to >turn every victory by a computer over a GM into an attack on Bob Hyatt? Bob's in a position he won't be able to defend forever, since hardware advances alone will eventually cause computers to score >50% against anybody. In the case of many arguments, you can argue one way today and the same way tomorrow, and you know you'll be as right tomorrow as you are today. But you can't argue that the tide is out forever, eventually you will have to admit that it is in. And this doesn't mean that you were wrong about it being out a while ago. I think that Bob has a different definition of "in" than many of you do. But he obviously knows that the tide will come in eventually. The sad thing is that when he does decide that as far as he's concerned the tide is in, many people will declare victory, since for them the tide has been in forever. But this is of course not true either. The tide wasn't in at the last Aegon (1997), even though some people were starting to say that it was. I don't know if it's in yet, but everyone has to watch out now or they'll get wet feet, that's for sure. bruce
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