Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Interview with GM John van der Wiel

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:51:32 01/12/01

Go up one level in this thread


On January 12, 2001 at 08:42:08, Peter Ackermann wrote:

>Q3] Do you think it important do prepare for a specific computer opponent or is
>it enough to be familiar with computer play in general?
>
>[JvdW] For me: enough to be familiar, unless you have access to the computer's
>opening book, then it becomes interesting to do specific preparation.
>
>
>I dont think any programmer would play a match using a published opening book.
>So it seems to me that JvdW underestimates the intelligence of chess
>programmers.


I do not agree.

If programs are good enough to win against humans with secret opening book then
an interesting question is if programs can win against humans with public
opening book.

Humans can try to prepare a win at home but it is probably not going to help if
the program is not deterministic or if the book is big enough.

I think that finally we get a situation when even public opening book and public
source code is not going to help humans because computers are faster and it is
only a question of time.

Uri



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.