Author: José Carlos
Date: 11:00:35 01/12/01
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On January 12, 2001 at 11:52:48, Josh Strayhorn wrote: >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. I absolutely disagree. A GM (any human player, actually) can play _any_ move they want in _any_ game they want. They prepare opening traps. They change their choices in the oppening depending on the opponent. So, a programmer can prepare some variations against a given human that he can avoid, and make it worthless. But if you use a public book, the human will know _exactly_ the moves the computer has in its opening book, and can find a hole. The computer will fall in the trap if the position is reached. I don't consider this fair in any way. José C.
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