Author: blass uri
Date: 02:07:22 06/17/00
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On June 17, 2000 at 03:36:07, Adrien Regimbald wrote: >Hi, > >>About the future: at the moment it still is a kind of shame to lose from >>a computer. This makes a GM careful to play. However things are changing >>rapidly. Soon there will be a time that GM's will consider it as a big >>thing to win from a computer since there is only to win and nothing to >>lose. Then we see the opposite happen: big headers in magazines, "GM wins >>from computer XXX", the GM on his home page he has beaten the monster, >>postings in CCC will drop with 35% because it is no news anymore to win >>from a GM, instead it will be only news if a computer loses. How do you >>think producers will feel then? > > >Hmm .. an interesting point :) But there is one issue of practicality here - if >it ever does get to the point where the GM is lucky to win, there likely won't >be any GMs playing the computer in a sanctioned event. (What I mean is this - >if the computers become better, it would be a bit of a farce to have a >competition with them in it, other than perhaps an exhibition match) > >I actually think postings on the CCC would drop by more like 95% :P Not only >would we lose the "can computer x beat GM y" and "how did computer x do in >tournament y" posts, but we would also likely lose the "check out my latest >winboard tourney" and "which CM personality is better" variety of posts (neither >of which I am terribly interested in, FYI) too.. I do not think that we will lose these posts. I think that these posters are interested in computer-computer games and the results against humans are not relevant. I also think that it will be always possible to give the GM an advantage to do the games more interesting(for example to let the GM to take back moves and the question may be if GM's can beat computers if they have the right to take back moves 10 times in a game). Uri
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