Author: Michael Neish
Date: 21:07:44 02/13/00
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On February 13, 2000 at 23:02:17, Chessdaddy wrote: > There has been more than two games played, See Chris Carson's list of 40\2 >games where computers have a rating over 2500. I'll do that, thanks. I realised after sending the previous post that Deep Junior won 2-0. So it's two games, but it still doesn't prove anything. I personally don't really care whether computers can nowadays be labelled "stronger" than GMs or not. They seem to be so at faster time controls, by what many people are saying, but not quite there at 40/120. But the question detracts from what is interesting about computer Chess (at least to me), which is finding ways to make computers play better. There'll come a day, pretty soon, when computers will finally dominate over humans at all time controls, but I think they'll do so just by exploiting human tactical failings, i.e., they will still possess far less understanding than humans, but will jump on any small slip they commit. Maybe this is why some strong players say that computers are "effectively 2400 strength", as someone said on CCC not long ago. They player stronger than that, but their understanding is equivalent to a 2400 player. So even when this day comes there will be a range of challenges to be overcome. Cheers, Mike.
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