Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:27:29 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 13:18:34, Michel Langeveld wrote: >So why not a forklift truck on a World Championship of weightlifting. Hi Michel: Perhaps yours is not the perfect example. Machine that lift weights are from the beginning stronger than even Hercules. No mistery to solve. Is not the same with chess programs: in fact the idea of making them play the best human player is precisely to see how strong they are. Besides some improvement of human playing could emerge from this kind of competition. There is plenty of room for dicoveries and a challenge to the usual way we play chess. Many discoveries in the realms of openning, perhaps. Nothing of that is like competing againts a machine that just lift something. Different would be or will be the day there is no doubt at all and just any top program can defeat any top human player. But for now is not so and so we are going to lose a source of excitment and eventual progress both for programmers and human players. But in any case I agree this is a debatable point. Fernando
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