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Subject: Re: Hmmmmmm

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:38:23 12/27/00

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On December 27, 2000 at 04:58:02, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On December 27, 2000 at 00:28:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 25, 2000 at 19:17:51, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On December 25, 2000 at 02:31:32, jonas cohonas wrote:
>>>
>>>>Todays chessplaying progs, are really, really strong!!
>>>>And maby Kramnnik is right when he says that progs are
>>>>inferior in tactics and positional "understanding" how-
>>>>ever it seems that even the super GM's (top 10) are see-
>>>>king ways to play for draws and blocked pawnstructures
>>>>they are ALL avoiding (maby except from Morozevich) att-
>>>>acking, these "inferior" progs because of the simple fact
>>>>that when it comes to calculation of: lines, exchanges,
>>>>combinations, mate in 69# (lol), tempo's etc...........
>>>>the prog's (top 10) are superior. And as the prog's get
>>>>more and more knowledge and implementation of selflearning
>>>>and arteficial intelligence AI. they WILL be superior to
>>>>humans in all aspects of the game, that is just a question
>>>>of time, just look at Deep junior and Deep Fritz/Fritz 6a-b's
>>>>latest score against GM's. The question is not; if progs
>>>>will beat human brains, but when they will reign supreme
>>>>it might be in 5 years, my personal feeling is 5 years, but
>>>>it might aswell be 50 years (i dont think it will be more
>>>>than that though) many people might feel that the fun and
>>>>intrique of the game will be taken out of chess, if the
>>>>progs get unbeatable, but in that lies the real challenge
>>>>for humans, to stretch there abillities and raise the level
>>>>of their own game, try to come up with new ways to beat the
>>>>progs, and thereby becoming better players, because no matter
>>>>how good the progs get, there will always be the excitement
>>>>of human v human games and matches.
>>>>Personally i enjoy watching progs v humans and vice versa,
>>>>I also enjoy a good celluloid battle in contrast to the
>>>>sillicon binary shootouts between the top dog's of AI.
>>>>By the way Deep blue lost to shredder 4 who played from a
>>>>laptop with a pentiumll 450 mhz 128 ram so in conclusion
>>>>you can have as many kn/s, if there is no sufficiant knowledge
>>>>it is only calculations. Deep blue would probably rank as 9-10
>>>>on any rating list with todays PC progs(my opinion soley)
>>>
>>>
>>>Deep Blue would be #1.
>>>
>>>Deep Blue Junior would probably not be above the best PC programs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>
>>
>>Murray had DB junior online during a couple of the Kasparov/Kramnik games.
>>With 20 chess processors, it was hitting over 40M nodes per second.  I wouldn't
>>want any part of that with today's PC hardware/programs...
>
>It would be nice to see the thing participate only once. The thing seem
>to be alive so what is keeping them?
>
>Ed


IBM is the problem.  They have everything to lose, nothing to gain,
unfortunately.  They are basking in the afterglow of DB2 vs Kasparov.
They aren't going to do _anything_ to dampen that...



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