Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: When will a P.C. Program and ? Mhz will be able to beat Kasparov ?

Author: David Blackman

Date: 02:18:51 04/11/00

Go up one level in this thread


On April 10, 2000 at 21:57:05, stuart taylor wrote:


>And anyway, the thrill of chess, I think, is that of wierd being proven right,
>but I think that chess computers have already taught us that wierd normally
>proves wrong. Does anyone think that there still exists such a deep
>wierdness that would yet baffle the top humans, and that computers will unlock
>it?

Yes. Look at some of the weirdness found by endgame tablebases. There are
positions there where the winning plan appears to be impossible for IMs and GMs
to understand. I am sure that even stranger stuff will emerge in middlegames
when computers learn to play them much better than GMs do. I think this will
happen in the next 5 to 10 years.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.