Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:42:04 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 21:03:53, Jonathan Lee wrote: >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) Note that computers do not win cash prizes. In USCF events this is specifically forbidden. In most other events the computer operator agrees to such a stipulation before they are allowed to enter. In a round-robin, this works fine. Everyone has to play the computer. In a swiss, this can cause a few problems since everyone doesn't play the computer and that can skew the final standings, so that even if the computer doesn't win a prize, it exerts an influence on who does win it.
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