Author: Jonathan Lee
Date: 18:03:53 05/16/00
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Yes, I agree with the money or profit motive. Most GMs are slowly losing money in human/human tournaments. (The adult attendence is decreasing except for kids in scholastics, but kids get trophies.) A stereotypical GM is from Eastern Europe; they went to western free world. Even in the west, most of them are still making just enough money to make ends meet. The problem with machines is that the hardware is almost always faster in the future not slower. This leapfrog or subset effect won't go away. If the current trend in Moore's law continues without impediments in computer hardware science, by the year 2015 computers will be as fast as Deeper Blue. IBM's software "Shallow Blue", slower version, is not next to Fritz 6, Junior 6, or RebelTiger 12. Grandmasters' time is numbered. Jonathan (40th version)
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