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Subject: Re: Will Deep Junior beat the FIDE Champion today?

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 09:39:06 07/10/00

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On July 10, 2000 at 10:03:59, blass uri wrote:

>I have a different opinion.
>I believe that computers have weaknesses and I do not want them to win humans so
>fast because I see from watching games of them that they do not understand some
>things that even I understand.
>
>I prefer to see programs get better before they win humans.
>I prefer to see humans win programs today because I  believe that it can
>encourage programmers to improve their programs in order to win humans in the
>future.
>
>Good result for the programs against humans today is bad for the future of
>computer chess.

I understand your viewpoint Uri, because your main interest is the chessgames
produced by human-computer contests and that is a genuine reason as far as I'm
concerned.

Personally, I'm hoping that chess programs win as fast as possible to eliminate
them from future tournaments due to their immense strength. I know this will
remove the pleasure of staring into the Junior or Fritz GUI looking at the
evaluation, or shuffling through the Junior book, for many "wanna be" GM's that
maybe once failed miserably as chess players. Hopefully, this will happen soon,
so we can avoid moronic statements like "I smell blood".

To persons, who feel offended reading the above paragraph, I will merely add
that it isn't recommendable being emotionally attached to a piece of software
that has more in common with Windows than a chess player.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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