Author: Josh Strayhorn
Date: 08:52:48 01/12/01
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On January 12, 2001 at 09:51:32, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I think that a public opening book is a very good idea, especially in match play. It would numb some of the advantage computers have in terms of preparing for GMs, you know, so and so always plays this variation of the French so I'll play this instead. A GM cannot prepare to play a computer like he can to play against another GM, and meanwhile whoever makes up the opening book can prepare it for a specific human opponent.
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