Author: KarinsDad
Date: 09:10:23 07/06/00
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On July 06, 2000 at 11:04:53, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On July 06, 2000 at 10:53:37, KarinsDad wrote: > >>To be accurate, this quote is from GM Sergei Shipov. I'm not sure of his current >>standing, but it should be somewhere in the FIDE top 25. Makes one wonder if >>this type of fear is in the top 25 level of GMs, how much longer it will take >>for the programs to be at super GM level. >> >>KarinsDad :) > >Fear? I can't remember reading anything about being afraid other than on behalf >of the future of chess. Please explain the type of fear you've managed to >extract from the text at hand. > >Best wishes... >Mogens "Hans Gerber II" Larsen Actually, you should read the entire article to understand my point better. But, just from these few sentences, I will attempt to illustrate my point. "Any chess player, even such geniuses as Kasparov and Anand, are, in fact, helpless when fighting a machine, ..." Indicating that the top 2 players in the world are helpless implies that the end of computer/human chess is practically over. "especially looking into the future!" This implies that this is partially true now as well as definitely true in the future. "To my mind, it is immoral, even criminal, to let the audience mock at the best representatives of our fragile chess world!" Excuse me? Immoral? Criminal? Fragile? We are talking a chess tournament here, not some dictator. When people use words like this in this context, they are not talking rationally, but rather expressing fear. What he is really saying here (and in the rest of the article) is that he is afraid of 1) having computers in tournaments, 2) having computers so strong that they can illustrate how poorly humans actually play, 3) the losing of sponsors, partially due to computers, and 4) the lack of traditional tournaments. The article starts out with "Fewer and fewer traditional tournaments remain in the chess calendar. The sponsors are gradually disappearing, which is understandable. Instability in the chess world has become appalling, and a real system for defining the World Champion is virtually non-existent." Another quote from the article: "Unfortunately, the sporting results of the human-warriors of the tournament will undoubtedly be spoiled by the participation of the Junior-6 program, as already happened at the Holland Championship in the spring." These are major concerns for him. They may not be major concerns for all chess players, but Shipov is definitely spooked. KarinsDad :)
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