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Subject: Re: How much further to go in Man-Machine?

Author: pete

Date: 16:11:44 07/15/00

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>This may be so, but how much greater is a GM's knowledge really?  Being
>realistic and not worshipping the talented, that is. ;)

It is immense I think .

If you look at GM judgements of positions you often see even material , no
forced things and the GM says : Black wins ! No prog can do this yet ( and be
right most of the time :-) ) . I just remember a very famous position from
Alekhine from Nottingham36 and the comments in tourney book , if interested I
can search for it .

I had an interesting experience once ; being about a 2100 player then ( far away
now ;-) ) I played against an IM in team game , chose my favourite opening ,
reached my favourite type of position and was ( very ) happy .

Some 40 moves later I lost .

Interesting was post-mortem analysis ; I searched for my mistakes move per move
and was critical with nearly every move I made . Opponent listened a little then
explained to me :" Whole setup was wrong ! Position is passive allowing opponent
to play with a clear plan without adequate counterplay !"

I very rarely see moves or better _setups_ from computers I can't understand ;
it seems most of their knowledge is near mine ; only they really go deep . I
suspect though this is not enough until hardware improves to a point too deep
for humans .




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