Author: stuart taylor
Date: 23:31:50 06/29/00
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On June 29, 2000 at 16:28:54, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 29, 2000 at 04:04:49, stuart taylor wrote: >>On June 28, 2000 at 01:56:53, David Blackman wrote: >>>On June 27, 2000 at 00:32:15, stuart taylor wrote: >>>> Is it not true that human ratings are lower than computer ratings relative to >>>>true standard of play due to the fact that humans make many blunders of the >>>>nature that computers do not? >>> >>>Correct. >>> >>>It is also true that I make many blunders of the nature that Kasparov does not. >>>This is the main reason that his rating is 1200 points higher than mine, IHMO, >>>and if truly deserved ratings were used our ratings would actually be much >>>closer :-) >> >>Yes. I know! It can get a little bit complicated. But still, human vs. human >>is very different to human vs. calculator. The calculator simply does NOT make >>any mistakes which it is not programed to make. All humans DO- in abundance! > >You are wrong. Programs are full of bugs. Opening books are full of bugs. >Algorithms are deficient. Eval functions are deficient. > >Look at some of the funny gaffes like immobilizing your own pieces that have >been recently demonstrated. > >Computers make plenty of mistakes, *especially* positional ones. Some of them >are simply hilarious. I'm talking about the type of mistake that after making, you have to just resign immeadiately. I don't think the top commercial programmes ever do such mistakes. e.g. to throw away a peice. Or even something near to that, is usually much more serious (for the end result) than computer errors. S.Taylor
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