Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:27:05 05/18/00
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On May 18, 2000 at 14:15:13, Peter Kasinski wrote: >I predict that in the near future most chess events will involve computer >participants. I expect that the title “Human World Champion” will gain some >acceptance by 2001, and achieve widespread use by 2003. In that, it will be akin >to the title awarded to women today – important, but denoting a subset >nonetheless. > >This year we shall see a slow but steady transformation in the way GM’s treat >computer opponents. Soon they will be careful about not offending operators. >Because that’s where the money is. Because not all GM’s will be invited. And >because computer-free national championships will be relegated to a peripheral >status. > >The tide will be joined by the GM-supreme. Mr. Kasparov will accept a challenge >from one of the micros. He will do it for two reasons: a) for money; and b) >because after explaining that this challenger is more formidable than the “old >and dismantled” Deep Blue, he will get his rematch. Coincidentally, both >Microsoft and Intel will silently accede to his assessment. > >All this will be neither right, nor wrong. Not any more appalling than it may be >desirable. It will simply happen. If GM’s are smart, they will agree to faster >time controls in return for the right to use their notes during the game. Oh, >and they should have no problem getting a 2-minute commercial break every 10 >moves or so. Just watch. If you read Yassar's interview, you will see that OTB chess is in a mighty mess (as if you did not already know). Politics have taken over and those in control don't have any love for the game. The GM's are frozen with fear that computers are better than they are. They will try to avoid them at all costs, because if they should be beaten by them, their aura of inviciblility will be tarnished. At some point we may even stop caring what the people are doing at all and just watch the computer matches. That would be a mighty shame, and based upon a false premise, but I see this outcome as a distinct possibility. Personally, I think that failing to rise to the challenge of playing computers shows that man's time for dominance in the game has passed. Humans may actually *be* better right now. But already, the spirit has been broken. Hence, humans have already lost.
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