Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 21:39:05 01/13/01
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Hi Eriq, >Think about it what is the average rating of IM's, and have comps. not exceeded >that !! It's simple math people. Let's say you have a 1000mhz tbird 256mb 133ram >Use any of the top 5 programs against any IM, six game match. I would surely >put my money on the comps. In fact an old friend of mine played just genius all >the time and lost most of the time, yes he won some but the match was not even >and that was on just a pII300 64mb ram. and oh yes he was an IM !! I used to >take lessons from him. He was one of the best positional players I have ever >seen. I have played several IM's and I feel he was strong among them. > > final thought : comps strength on fast hardware IM if not more. well, first of all, it must be said that comps play completely different then IMs or GMs - but in last some games and tournaments against humans they have, with something that looks like chess, achieved ratings in range of IMs and GMs. But there are many things unclear. The machines are often prepared for the opponent, the humand being itself could not prepare because there are not enough games of the playing version... I believe that not a small amount of the strength of an GM is its possibility to prepare to special opponents, to look through there games, to make some conclusions out of it and to fight against that opponent... They are not only on the board in finding strategics and tactics much better then most of us chess blunderer, they are also in analysis better... Against computers they lost most of there strength concerning to the analysis - as I said, there are not enough games... When computers would be allowded to participate in tourneys for some years or so - then we would maybe know how strong they really are against humans, all what we can do at the moment are some predictions, there is nothing what could be said exactly. Also: With bying one of the new programs, it isn't like you have an IM at home now, the program can achieve ratings like IMs but with a complete other style of play... So they can not really explain what they are doing, they can not plan... Maybe once there will the time, that FIDE allows comps and then the games will be made - and I am sure the battle is not yet lost for the humans... still I see many people, rated around 2000, which can easylie beat every of those new programs... if they can it, GMs can it also, when they trainee a little bit on that... Greets, Thomas
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