Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:43:26 01/15/01
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There are some positions that GMs find easy to solve that the top computers cannot solve at all (or that most programs cannot solve). There are some positions that top computers find easy to solve that GMs find very difficult to solve in a reasonable amount of time (e.g., long tactical sequences with many plausible branches). Would these two factors approximately balance out in a match? I'd guess 'yes'. I think a moderately long match between a 2600+ GM and a 1000 MHz P3 running one of today's top programs would be fairly close. Either side could win but neither side would win by a huge margin (typically). That imprecise judgement, with some recent matches as minor evidence, is all I need to have my opinion that top PC programs are in the same ballpark overall, strengthwise, as GMs, each having different but approximately balancing weaknesses. (I'm in quite a different ballpark, unfortunately!)
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