Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:12:26 02/13/00
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On February 13, 2000 at 18:05:01, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 I have _always_ said that "sooner or later, computers will be GM's at 40/2, and after that, become super-GM players at some point, and after that they will become invincible at some point." It happened years ago in blitz, it happened a couple of years ago in game/30 and game/60. It won't be terribly long before 40/2 falls. But I don't believe it has fallen yet...
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