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Subject: Re: Something for GMs to think about

Author: Hans Gerber

Date: 05:04:22 06/17/00

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On June 17, 2000 at 02:27:31, Ed Schröder wrote:

>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?
>
>:)
>
>Ed

Just some thoughts on your reply to Mr. Regimbald whose thoughts BTW should be
taken very seriously IMO.

The producers' golden age still has not begun yet!

In those times in future where computers are not to beat in chess human chess
still will be as it is today - but we will have the machines as a guide, a
dictionary, a help. Every chess player will have such a machine at home. No
matter if he is a GM or a casually playing amateur. All schools will have such
machines and so on.

So I hope that you are not worried about your personal future as a member of the
elite of programmers and businessmen...

BTW it is remarkable how you and your team treat human GMs with respect and
often one eye closed, or were they both closed? Excuse me for the perhaps missed
meaning of my sensible irony. I think you are on the right way to come along
with the chessplayers. You know well where I discovered more of the contrary of
such good relations...



Hans Gerber



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